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I have been working on creating a single (large) installer for cygwin with everything you need to build brickOS (and leJOS as well). Download one large file (which is, unfortunately, 18.9 MB) and you are ready to go. I've tested it on W2K and it (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) been thinking that somebody should do this for quite some time now. I downloaded this package and installed it on my Windows 98 machine. Unfortunately, I have been having problems getting it to build the libraries. This is probably just a case (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) Apparently, there are problems running on Win98 (I've heard from another person who is having similar issues). I am trying to figure them out. I'll post here once I have a definitive answer. John Hansen (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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Dear John, Thank you very much for the further improvement of Brixcc! I could install the package including brickOS on a Win 98 system as well as download the related firmware, but could not compile any of the demos!? Besides that: You said: "Of (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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Hi A while ago I looked at using IC for writing programs. At the time there were 2 major turnoffs. There was no support for rotation sensors and you needed to own one of the serial infrared towers. It was easy to install and it had its own firmware. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) I'm just passing the following on for everyone else to read. scott Hi Scott, I don't have posting privs to all these lugnet lists, but just want to let you know that actually IC does support encoders (rotation sensors). It's just not (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) Dear Scott, Unfortunately it is still true that Interactive C does not support the USB-tower, but I am pretty sure this will be changed with the further releases (I recently bought a serial-tower at Shop.Lego for 16.99 Euro only!). But it (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) I'm looking into the problems that have been reported to me regarding using the pre-built compiler tools & cygwin on Win98. (...) IC4, so far as I can tell, doesn't have a command-line compiler which makes it quite a bit more difficult to (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) Suggestion, dont use Cygwin at all. Provide a pre-compiled version of: 1.GCC built for host=MingW (ligtweight toolchain for win32 systems that doesnt need bulky cygwin dlls) and target=rcx or whatever. 2.the BrickOS tools buit using MingW and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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