[Elecraft] S: Re: KX3/PX3 Linux Utilities for Raspberry Pi?

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2016 07 Apr 16:22 -0500, lstavenhagen wrote:
> Hi Nate,
> I wasn't aware the Windows version was still on x86, but I'm not terribly
> surprised. It might look trivial from the outside looking in, but MS charges
> a fortune for their dev tools. So maybe Elecraft isn't going to spring for
> the X64/amd64 cross-compilers and libs until x86 emulation finally drops off
> all the old Windows variants. And there may be portability issues that would
> require extra work that we don't know about too.

Windows?  I thought we were talking about Linux!  At least that is what
I inferred from the thread.

I was specifically referring to the present Linux utility tarball on the
Elecraft download page.  It is for the i386 architecture only.

> Not quite like gcc-based toolchains where you can find a backend for almost
> any processor out there and it's free too....

That's what I was referring to.

> Still looks like the Rasperry Pi is an interesting device...

Yes, it does have limitations that are discussed elsewhere.

73, Nate

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