ALP SDK available

This email was sent to TamsPalm by John Wilund. It is said to describe a new Access SDK for their Access Linux Platform, which is said to be downloadable now. I have checked the URL’s to find out that they do exist – but can’t say anything more as of now:

On the same website as the Garnet VM Compatibility kit you can also find a
SDK for ALP.
There is a 485 Mbyte file at http://dl.access-company.com/sdk/sdk.tgz.
The tar file contains a Debian package archive for i386 Linux.
It seeems to contain everything you need: Eclipse, compilers, simulator
etc.
Here is an excerpt of the Packages.gz file:
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Package: alp-eclipse
Description: ALP Development Suite based on Eclipse
The Eclipse-based ALP Development Suite.

Package: alp-eclipse-cdt
Description: Eclipse/CDT for the ALP Development Suite
The Eclipse/CDT for the IDE Development Environment for ALP.

Package: alp-eclipse-platform
Description: Eclipse Platform for the ALP Development Suite
The Eclipse Platform for the ALP Development Suite.

Package: alp-eclipse-runtime
Description: Java runtime for the ALP Development Suite
The Java runtime for the ALP Development Suite.

Package: alp-gdb-arm
Conflicts: alp-toolchain-arm5te-softfloat-linux-gnu (< = 3.4.4-1alpdev2)
Description: ALP GDB for ARM
arm-linux-gdb for debugging arm targets from Scratchbox

Package: alp-gdb-x86
Conflicts: alp-toolchain-i486-linux-gnu (<= 3.4.4-1alpdev2)
Description: ALP GDB for UML (alp-simulator)
i486-linux-gdb for debugging i486 targets from Scratchbox

Package: alp-glade
Description: ALP UI Builder based on Glade-3
The UI Builder for ALP with MAX widget set integration.
Based on the development snapshot of Glade-3 from gnome.org.

Package: alp-rootstrap-arm-sdk-rel
Description: ACCESS Linux Platform ARM device rootstrap release version
The rootstrap includes all the necessary libraries and headers for Access
Linux Platform ARM target. Used for booting the ARM device.

Package: alp-rootstrap-simulator-sdk-dbg
Description: ALP Scratchbox Rootstrap with debugging symbols for a
simulator target
The Scratchbox rootstrap for the ALP simulator target with debugging
symbols.
Used for booting the UML simulator.

Package: alp-scratchbox
Description: Scratchbox development environment for ACCESS Linux Platform
Scratchbox development environment for ACCESS Linux Platform

Package: alp-sdk
Description: The ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite
This is the root package for tools, libraries, and headers necessary to
build
and test ACCESS Linux Platform applications.

Package: alp-sdk-docs
Description: ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite Documentation
Development Suite contains appropriate documentations both for open
source and
Access Linux Platform middleware components.
It contains a general README document which describes last minute changes
to
the Development Suite and a getting start page for first time users.

Package: alp-sdk-rootstraps
Description: ACCESS Linux Platform Rootstrap
This is the root package for ARM device rootstrap and simulator
rootstrap.

Package: alp-sdk-samples
Conflicts: alp-sdk-samples (<= 1.1alpdev1 )
Description: ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite Samples
This includes a set of sample projects that illustrates GTK and GLADE
widget
usage and good coding practices (clean, commented, formatted) and
demonstrate
the programming style that developers should adopt.

Package: alp-simulator
Description: ALP Simulator (UML)
ALP Simulator package (based on User Mode Linux kernel aka UML).
Also includes alp-simulator startup script as well as
alp-versions script (which displays package info for
all currently-installed ALP-related packages).

Package: alp-toolchain-arm5te-softfloat-linux-gnu
Description: Scratchbox arm-gcc3.4.4 toolchain for ALP
GCC 3.4.4 toolchain for arm device target (sans gdb).

Package: alp-toolchain-i486-linux-gnu
Description: Scratchbox i486-gcc3.4.4 toolchain for ALP
GCC 3.4.4 toolchain for i486 simulator target (sans gdb).

Package: alp-toolchains
Description: Scratchbox toolchains for ALP development
Toolchains used for ALP Development in Scratchbox.
Compilers etc. for arm device and x86 simulator targets.

Package: scratchbox-core
Description: Scratchbox base system
Development tools.

Package: scratchbox-devkit-cputransp
Description: CPU transparency methods
CPU transparency methods for Scratchbox

Package: scratchbox-libs
Description: Scratchbox libraries
Libraries and includes required by compilers and tools.

Package: uml-utilities
Description: User-mode Linux (utility programs)
User-mode Linux is a port of the Linux kernel to its own system call
interface. It provides a kind of virtual machine, which runs Linux
as a user process under another Linux kernel. This is useful for
kernel development, sandboxing, jailing, experimentation, and
many other things.
.
This package contains userspace utilities for use with User-mode
Linux, including uml_mconsole, uml_moo, uml_switch, uml_net and
tunctl.
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Have not had the time to unpack any of the packages and to check it out.
Anyway, enjoy.

Ton van Overbeek

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