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Re: Newbie problems
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date: 
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:13:33 GMT
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[Ian: I realized I'd forgotten a sentence just after pressing send. So this
is not quite a duplicate of my previous message.]

Ian Miller wrote:
> I've been struggling to get legos 0.2.6 working for a few days now,

It may be worthwhile trying the latest brickos testing release, 0.2.6.09,
IIRC.

> and I'm beginning to make a little progress. Using the insturctions
> at this site:
> 
> http://legos.sourceforge.net/cygwin/INSTALL-cygwin.html
> 
> I finally got the thing installed under XP (Dosn't seem to want to go
> under win98 for me).
> 
> Just a few notes that may help others:
> 
> Install everything you can under cygwin, I think something
> might be missing from the list on the page above -

Everything under Cygwin is a lot. Why do you suspect that some required
packages were not listed?

> also, you'll need
> to have the Lego software installed for it to find the USB tower.
> 
> Now, I'm working through Luis Villa's tutorial in the Extreme
> Mindstorms book. Unfortunately, when I try to make the first file, i
> get the message:
> 
> h8300-hitachi-hms-ld -T ../boot/legOS.lds -relax -L/legos/lib
> simple.o  -lc
> -lmint -lfloat -lc++ -o simple.ds1 -Ttext 0xb000
> h8300-hitachi-hms-ld: cannot find -lc
> 
> 
> Any ideas about how to fix this? I don't know much about this stuff -
> am I right in saying this is a linking problem?

Yes. Did the demos in the brickos distribution build OK?

Manually rerunning the ld command above, with the addition of the -v switch
might produce some clues.



Max.



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(...) Well, the compilation process would give up everytime, despite just trying to install just the suggested packages. (Also, given the unintuitive Cygwin install program, I decided it was easier to say everything - I have access to a nice fat (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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Hi everyone, I've been struggling to get legos 0.2.6 working for a few days now, and I'm beginning to make a little progress. Using the insturctions at this site: (URL) finally got the thing installed under XP (Dosn't seem to want to go under win98 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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