compiling an application on the target board

[jmark_83]

greetings...

im a beginer in embedded systems, im doing a project in embedded linux. im using BlueCat Liux 5 as my embedded OS and redhat 9 as my host system....

my target board is a celeron 500 desktop PC and i was wondedring how do i transfer my application to my target board. i can compile an appliction on my host system. do i hv to compile it in my terget board o can i transfer the compiled application to the target board.

do i need a compiler for my target board....??

thanks in advance

regards
newbie in embedded linux

 

[cfant]

In general you need to compile and build your application on development system. Than you can transfer it to your target. In your case maybe you can use floppy to transfer files from development host to you target, or if you have network running you can use ftp or tftp.