Thanks everyone for your responses! I already have cygwin, I just wanted to avoid building the binaries. I'm on Win98 at home and I read in newsgroups cygwin can be a little touchy with that OS.
As for using coldfire gcc, I think I should avoid that. Coldfire has some unique instructions (floating point, multiply-accumulate, etc.) that aren't compatible with my target micro (Dragonball).
Let me be more specific about my query concerning prc-tools. There's a patch for gcc. I looked at the .diff file (first time I've seen one) and I saw something for PIC. That doesn't matter too much for me. But, isn't that a gcc option anyways? I also saw stuff about r9. The rest I couldn't understand. I did see an option getting added for
-palmos, so as 42Bastian implied, the -m68k optiion is still supported, so it should work.
I was all set to try the prc-tools first, but now I remember: libc. Prc-tools isn't built with newlib, but with libc oriented towards PalmOs. Shoot. I guess I'll build a cross compiler.
David, thanks much for the davehylands link! I hadn't seen that one. I'll try that script for building. Although at work we pay for precompiled gcc, I'm too cheap to lay out that money for a home project :). Also, the binaries we purchased were a real pain to install and work correctly (took DAYS) and would only work on WinNT and above.
Jim