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I want to make an application that will run on the linux that came with the zedboard.  Can I design it and compile it using the Xilinx SDK?  Then copy the executable over to the linux?  Or do I somehow have to get the compiler and arm toolchain on that linux somehow and compile it there?  Thanks!

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    Hi,

    I suggest compiling your application in Xillinux (using gcc). Odds are that it will work on any distribution running Linux.

    If the executable happens to depend on a library that exists on Xillinux, but on the target distribution, you may use the "-static" flag to tell gcc to generate a self-contained executable. The executable will be bigger, but this is usually a small penalty when it's a single program compiled this way.

    I've never tried to use Xilinx' SDK for this, but I take Kevin's word for that it's possible, of course.

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    Hi,

    I suggest compiling your application in Xillinux (using gcc). Odds are that it will work on any distribution running Linux.

    If the executable happens to depend on a library that exists on Xillinux, but on the target distribution, you may use the "-static" flag to tell gcc to generate a self-contained executable. The executable will be bigger, but this is usually a small penalty when it's a single program compiled this way.

    I've never tried to use Xilinx' SDK for this, but I take Kevin's word for that it's possible, of course.

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    I'm using a Windows 7 PC with SDK and I have built several elf files and I have multiple ways to install them in a directory on the Zynq.  I've tried a few hours, set the X flag etc, but I can't figure out how to get them to execute on the board.  The only discussions I can find give vague discussions how someone could write some app to then cause an elf file to be executed.   My Zynq board powers up in some version of Linux, but it is not Petalinux and does not seem to have a TCF host - so I can't seem to run it from a remote debugger either.  Please help me figure something out before I start to look like an idiot to the bean counters.