Here are some really rough notes on how I setup the prc-tools and the Palm OS 5 SDK on my Windows box with Cygwin. I jotted these down a few months ago and never published. I’m publishing now on the off chance that this may be useful to someone who wants to get into Palm OS development.

http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/
http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/cygwin.html

16:08 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ tar -zxf palmos-sdk-5.0r3-1.tar.gz
16:08 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ ls
palmos-sdk-5.0r3-1.tar.gz  sdk-5r3/

16:10 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ palmdev-prep.exe 
Checking SDKs in /PalmDev
  sdk-5r3       headers in 'include', libraries in 'lib'

When GCC is given no -palmos options, SDK '5r3' will be 
used by default

Writing SDK details to configuration files...
...done

16:13 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ m68k-palmos-g++.exe -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-palmos/2.95.3-kgpd/specs
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-palmos/specs
gcc version 2.95.3-kgpd 20010315 (release)