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Re: RCXTTY-Variable Problem, calling ./firmdl3 ../boot/brickOS.srec
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Date: 
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:27:15 GMT
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Absolutly, Thanks :-)

> 
> I will try to add a little clarity to the problems that some people have
> encountered with brickOS under cygwin.
> 
> If you get make strip errors it is almost certainly because your utilities
> were built without .exe extensions.  This will happen if your makefiles do
> not know that you are building on a cygwin plaform (i.e., a windows
> machine).  Running the configure script should correctly set EXT=.exe in
> Makefile.common which will cause your utilities to be built with a .exe
> extension.  The configure script figures the extension out based on • whether
> your cross compiler has an extension.  If configure did not correctly set
> EXT=.exe then there is something not quite right with your cross compiler • setup.
> 
> To use the pre-built hitachi cross compiler tools all you have to do is
> extract the ZIP to your cygwin directory (usually c:\cygwin) using • something
> like WinZip.  Once you've done that, running configure with brickOS • newConf2
> will properly find your cross compiler and will setup the Makefiles
> appropriately.
> 
> If you get errors when you run firmdl or dll about not being able to open • a
> file then your utilities were built without -D_WIN32 which means that that
> the compiler thought you were building on a Unix box of some sort.  The
> utilities won't work on a windows machine if they were not built with • _WIN32
> defined.  The newConf2 release of brickOS incorrectly overwrites the value
> of CFLAGS so that the utilities are not correctly built unless you edit
> Makefile.common after running configure and correct the CFLAGS line in the
> BUILDING_HOST_UTILS section.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> John Hansen
> http://members.aol.com/johnbinder/bricxcc.htm



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(...) I will try to add a little clarity to the problems that some people have encountered with brickOS under cygwin. If you get make strip errors it is almost certainly because your utilities were built without .exe extensions. This will happen if (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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