Cygnus Developer's Kit Overview

This Developer's Kit release puts at your disposal, in a single coordinated and tested release, some of the best software development tools available. These tools are available for native development (where the same kind of system can run both the tools and the code you develop with them) and for cross-development (where one system, the host, runs the tools to develop software for another system, the target).

Cygnus Support has ported GNU tools to over sixty different platforms. As part of our service, we integrate all our tools to ensure that they all work together. Our developers use a regression testing method that checks not only for problems with a single tool, but across all the tools. We check for problems that a change in one program may cause in another. We don't ship your Developer's Kit release until we know it works.

The Developer's Kit contains development tools and utilities.

See What's in the CDK?. (Not all tools are available for all platforms and operating systems. See Release Notes Overview for specific information on your system.) For information about your support contract, see Your Support Contract.

For information about printed manuals and online documentation, see Printed Manuals and Online Documentation.

To get updates on the current enhancements to the Developer's Kit, see Getting Updates to the CDK .

To report any problems you encounter, see Reporting Problems.

To learn more about Cygnus Support, see About Cygnus Support.

To understand the relationship to free software with the Free Software Foundation with Cygnus Support, see Cygnus Support and the FSF.

To get a better understanding of free software, see What is free software?.

To contact Cygnus Support, see How to Contact Cygnus Support.