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Subject:	BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date:	Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:45:13 GMT
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So, I recently installed cygwin (again) and the pre-built Hitachi cross compiler (which someone recently posted about here). I installed the latest BrickOS release from SourceForge. Everything in the BrickOS for Windows instructions worked flawlessly. After everything built without errors I ran firmdl3 & then downloaded helloworld.lx using dll. Piece of cake. Now I am psyched about enabling BricxCC to compile & download C/C++ programs to the RCX brick. I've had C/C++ syntax highlighting support in BricxCC for a while now. Today, I added support for C/C++ to the Code Explorer window. My intial idea is to allow for multi-file builds via some sort of project file. Compiling a project file will generate a make file, perform a make, and leave behind a .lx file with the same name as the project file. Compile & link a single file without requiring a project file. Downloading will use dll. All the nifty BricxCC tool windows won't work, of course, but you'll have all the power of a full-featured editor with a tightly integrated compile/download operation and error listings that will take you to the source line causing the error just like BricxCC does with NQC & MindScript currently. Your ideas & suggestions are requested. Thanks in advance, John Hansen http://members.aol.com/johnbinder/bricxcc.htm

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		Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
Could you expand on what you want to do with BrickOS? Something about project files? generating make file? If this has anything to do with having a file anywhere on your hard-drive and having it compile leaving an *.LX file behind, I may be of some (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

		Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
This will be quite nice! I would be awesome if we could package a single "install" that would place precompiled GCC and Binutil files on the drive. That way, the user would simply install some cygwin support, then this program, download BrickOS, and (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

		Re: BrickOS & BricxCC - coming soon to a Windows PC near you
Hello John, (...) That would be real real great! (...) That should work. At my system, bigger projects are broken into several source files. It is easier for me to work with them then with a huge single source file. (...) Why not? BrickOS can handle (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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