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Re: getting BrickOS through slow connection
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:09:20 GMT
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Vidhyanath Rao wrote:
> My son and I have been looking BrickOS but one sticking point is that we
> have a slow connection at home which makes getting large packages hard.
> In such cases, I just download the files at work and burn the files into
> CD-RW and bring them home. Is there any place that gives the precise
> list of files I need to get BrickOS up on Win XP? [Basically, any method
> that requires running a setup that downloads files, as Cygwin
> recommends, is bad for large downloads.]
You can run Cygwin setup in a "Download from internet" mode, then take the
files home, and run it in "Install from local directory" mode.
> Second question is, is there any hope of getting BrickOS to run using
> MSYS? [Msys is a fork of Cygwin that aims to produce a minimal system
> that will execute configure and make scripts to run in Windows. It has
> ports of Perl, m4 etc, but of course, no fork, permissions (may be in
> Win 2000/XP Pro?, certainly not in XP Home) etc.]
2 steps: Compiling the cross-binutils and cross-gcc under MSYS, and then
(possibly) making changes to brickOS Makefiles.
Probably doable, but not simple.
Max.
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