Lpc2000

> I need to purchase SDK with software libraries (no source) developed with
> ADS toolchain. Can I use these libraries with GNU toolchain? It seems that
> ADS toolchain is $6000 so I'm trying to avoid that... :(

Okay... The information I'm about to give you is two? three? years old, 
so take it with a grain of salt:

ADS uses, or used to use, the COFF object format. This is strongly 
deprecated in the GNU world, in favor of ELF. It is however possible to 
build a set of GNU tools that use COFF (try --target=arm-unknown-coff at 
a guess). I don't know how well this is tested in current gcc/binutils 
versions, though. The last (and first) success report I read on this 
topic was on the ecos-discuss list a long time ago, from someone who 
needed to use an object-only ADS library with the eCos operating system, 
which is GNU-centric.

I hope these are asm/C libraries. C++ may give you a very hard time indeed.

Have you triple-checked with the vendor that they don't have a 
GNU-compatible version of this library? It's unusual... gcc is the de 
facto industry standard tool for ARM development. When I was looking for 
libraries a couple of years ago, I asked our vendors and all of them 
said they would supply either type according to request.

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