macOS embedded system development ...

[jfa]

Dear all,

This might not be the right place to ask the question. Sorry...

I have seen many programmers/software engineers using Mac for their software development. And I was always wondering what do the Macer usually do, if they need to develop software for Linux embedded system/device?

Do they just set up the Linux environment with VMware, etc.? Or, use bootcamp to dual-boot with Linux? Or, anything else ...?

Thank you,

 

[firewood]

VMWare (or Parallels or VirtualBox). But a few embedded systems have available Mac hosted development tools (Arduino for instance). Eclipse/Java development software may run as is on a Mac. And some of the tools for these systems for which full source code is available (gcc versions, etc.) will just configure and make with zero or just a bit of tweaking for file locations and such.

 

[jfa]

Thanks a bunch!