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(...) I'm sorry it took so long to reply, Phil, but as a non-windows user, well, I didn't see much in the initial messages that led me to think I could help. From what I've seen, this is the cause of the error- the two Makefiles (Makefile and (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I reinstalled everything and I have progressed to the point of seeing the first-c++.o file and it stops with the following error: -snip- C:\legOS-0.1.7>make h8300-hms-g++ -DCXX -O2 -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) More to the point, it cannot recognize the '(cd' command. Now, why that is, or how you can fix it, I do not know. It would appear to be a problem with make or with your shell. It should just be farming the entire line off to the shell, which (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks Lou, I am sure that you are right. I also don't know what could cause it or how to fix it. I just hope there is some bright person who reads this NG and can get me on to the next step. Based upon the discussion topics that I have seen, this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Some versions of make look for the sh shell, others use the dos shell. Probably, make is using the dos shell and not sh. As far as I know, make does not parse the parens, the shell does. And dos does not understand the parens. My cygwin make (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Damn, I am too used to tcsh, and yet I still remembered the export. Make that: MAKE_MODE=UNIX; export MAKE_MODE (followed by make) Again, make --unix should also do the trick if that is easier to remember. Oh. My MAKE_MODE environment variable (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You are sooo smart. I am not sure I completely understand everything you have said in the last two posts, but if I just blindly type "make --unix" IT WORKS!!!. I will now go back and see if I can follow everything you have suggested and see if I can (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm thinking - we need just such a list! I mean - the only info out there for Win98 users is confusing at best. What is needed is a VERY SIMPLE explanation - basically, several steps. Download THIS zip file Unzip it to THIS directory name Put the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Phil, Matt, other Windows/LegOS users- If anyone would like to write them up, I'd love to add Windows instructions to my LegOS HOWTO. Only problem is that I cannot test them myself, so I need others to provide them and make them usable. Currently, I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The existing HOWTO is nice, and I know he worked hard on it BUT.... What I think we need is a howto with a REALLY narrow scope... which, ironically, would cover more people than any other group. You know what's probably out there right now? A ton of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) As a professional programmer, I just don't have the time, interest, or inclination to fiddle with building the GNU tools. I have tried to do this by following other folks best efforts and got something that was 95% functional. and in the end, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Geez, I hate to plug my own work, but why not try the new pbFORTH. You can have arrays, as many variables as you want, simple multitasking, etc... No need for a compiler, just a terminal emulator will work. You DO have to try and learn FORTH, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Like I said, I'm willing to host such a site for at least a year if others would like to contribute. That offer includes any necessary binaries for other tools as well- pbFORTH, NQC, etc. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I appreciate your help, and it does sound interseting. However, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I'd prefer to leverage my (much more marketable) C skills when writing programs for the RCX. That's why I'm using NQC right now - I already know (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) platform. (...) Same here.. That Gavin package...that might have been the one I downloaded...but even that one had a crazy directory structure, and all the compiled EXE's had names about 16 letters long! How about something simple like GCC (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) No argument from me here. Forth is not very popular anymore with the advent of really good C compilers for embedded processors (my specialty). BUT if you want a way to interactively control your LEGO bots, and have alook at the insides of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Great!!! I know Gavin's toolset works for Win98, you might ask if you can pinch a copy and host it on your site. I'm not against building the tools, or the tools themselves. In fact, the GNU assembler and debugger (and m4) were the tools I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am a professional in the QA area and used to writing documentation as a part of my job, and am going to take the "challenge". Thanks for the offer to host the info. Give me a week or so (i'm very busy with some chip-level failure analysis right (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm waiting... :) If anyone can help out, Just let me know locations where I can grab files, or let me know that you have something so that I can give you a temporary FTP account to upload to my machine. Preferably, I'd like someone with a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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