Como Generar Una Imagen Windows Ce 6.0 Para La Mini2440

How to generate a Windows CE 6.0 image for the mini2440
Monday 1 February 2010, by Dom
Installing development tools
Windows CE image generation needs a dedicated tool : Platform Builder.
Since version 6.0 of Windows CE, Platform Builder is a tool that installs on top of Visual Studio 2005 pro. Free trial versions limited to 180 days of both tools are available. At the end of the trial period,the tools are no longer usable, but the images were generated with no time limit.
These tools can be installed from these page. Installation is fairly long, you’d better have a good bandwidth (and do not use Firefox...). All the tools of this page must be installed : 
 Visual Studio 2005 Pro 
 Windows Embedded CE 6.0 
 the service pack 1 of Visual Studio 2005 Pro 
 the update for Vista ifyou use Vista 
 the service pack of Platform Builder 6.0 
 The R2 & R3 revisions of Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Installing BSP
The development tools include the Microsoft Windows CE sources and tools to generate a Windows CE image. A BSP (Board Support Package) is needed to adapt Windows CE to a board. The mini2440 BSP can be downloaded here. To install BSP, just launch the .exe file found inthe BSP. BSP files are copied in wince600 tree. Once the BSP is installed, you can see the creation of directories : 
 C:\WINCE600\PLATFORM\Mini2440 : source code of the BSP 
 C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\Mini2440 : Platform Builder project already created.
Generating an image
The BSP contains a Visual Studio that will prevent us from starting from scratch. Just start Visual Studio 2005, Files/Openmenu, and select C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\Mini2440\Mini2440.sln file. The Visual Studio window has three parts: 
 right side: file editor 
 lower side : generation/search results, etc... 
 left side : solution explorer, catalog items view, etc...In the picture above, the Mini2440 BSP is installed.
The catalog items view contains all the available components : most are
Le catalogue des composantscontient tous les composants logiciels disponibles : most components are shipped with Platform Builder, but you can also find our BSP (at the bottom, Third Party / BSP / Mini 2400: ARMV4I). To add a component to our image, just check it.
Before image building, display type must be chosen in c:\wince600\platform\mini2440\Src\Inc\options.h file :
//#define LCD_N35
//#define LCD_L80
#define LCD_T35//#define LCD_A70
//#define LCD_VGA1024768
Above configuration is for a 3.5" display.
We generate a release image :
Image generation is launched by clicking in Generate/Advanced Build Commands/Sysgen menu.
At the end, following message should appear (sorry, i don’t have the exact english translation) :
== Génération : 1 a réussi ou est à jour, 0 a échoué, 0 a été ignoré ==
The generatedimage is stored in the C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\Mini2440\Mini2440\RelDir\Mini2440_ARMV4I_Release\nk.bin file. This is the file that we will have to download in our board.
But before downloading the image, the bootloader needs to be updated (see following article)
Error cases
Unsupported configurations in OS Design : the BSP of the mini2440 is not installed in the Windows CE source arborescence. Ifyou installed the BSP in c:\wince600\OSDesigns, verify that the c:\wince600\Public repertory exists. If not, you didn’t install the Windows CE sources in c:\wince600 but in another directory, you mus install the BSP in this directory.
Checksum failure When nk.bin uploading with DNW tool, following message is displayed :
ERROR: Checksum failure
You have to update your bootloader.
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* Générer une image Windows CE pour la mini244012 March 2010 15:32, by simon
Hello
I have found the visual studio on the microsoft website but I can´t install it, every time I click one of the setups, a black dos window comes up very fast and then it dissapears again.
Also I don´t know the serial for windows embedded ce 6.0, does anyone know where I can find it?
Grtz
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