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Hi, I'm looking at porting brickOS to FreeBSD. I guess the first step is to get the crosscompiler etc. going. Which version of gcc and binutils is the best to use? I searched a bit but it isn't very clear which version to use, except that lots of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) I think the latest official gcc-binaries for brickOS are still 2.95.x. However, I have binutils-2.15 and gcc-3.4.0 running under linux and had only minor problems. Make sure you compile gcc without the stdc++ libraries or just ignore the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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(...) Thanks, I'm up and running using binutils-2.15, gcc-3.4-20041217 and your gcc-3.3 patch to the cvs version of brickOS. I also have the USB Tower working. Would the brickOS guys be interested in FreeBSD patches to firmdl and dll? John (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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John, I'm interested in how you got the USB tower working... I've got a Tcl package that talks to the LEGO USB tower driver under Windows, but nothing for FreeBSD yet. I'm willing to share the Tcl script with you if I ever get the tower working (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi John, I would be interested in the patches to firmdl and dll. If you could please post them somewhere or email them to me. Thanks, Jarod (20 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: brickOS port to FreeBSD
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Hi Jarod, (...) Ok, you can get it from ftp://ftp2.za.freebs...d-usb.diff I haven't been able to get the fast mode to work yet. I guess firmdl needs something different from NQC because it do work in NQC. I have tried to make the changes so that (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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