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Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:41:36 GMT
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Thanks for the notes. I briefly tried to get legOS to compile on NT and
gave up before I got as far as you did. Let us know if you get it all working.
At 03:22 PM 11/18/99 +0000, you wrote:
> No, I don't have it working yet. However, I've made
> progress, and I thought my experience might be
> helpful to others who are more savvy with
> the GNU tools than I am.
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> - I did get everything to compile. As Luis suggested,
> the -nostdinc flag takes care of the redefined symbols
> problem. I think I had to copy some of the lnp stuff
> into the util directory to get dll to compile, but at
> this point I can't remember for sure.
> - Some confusion arises with executable file names. In
> particular, the Makefile in util/dll-src tries to copy
> executables up a directory level once they're built. Under
> Win32, the names have .exe at the end which causes the copy
> to fail. This also means "make clean" doesn't always work right.
> - Perl scripts were a problem. The Perl interpreter expects
> to be passed a Win32 path, but Cygwin passes the Cygwin
> path, which could be very different depending on how
> you've mounted your directories. Probably the easiest
> way around this is to map your Cygwin directories directly
> over your Win32 directories. I kluged through it by
> mirroring my Cygwin structure under Win32 and copying the
> Perl scripts there.
>
> My current status:
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> - legOS is compiled and running on my RCX. Note that I did
> have to use --slow for firmdl3, but then again my serial
> ports under WinNT have always been a little strange.
> - Everything in util is compiled.
> - I'm able to make helloworld.lx.
> - dll can't talk to the RCX, so I can't download user
> programs. I guess lnp is not working there? I guess I
> need to build the new compiler to get lnp working on the
> RCX. But here my knowledge is very shakey.
>
> Jonathan
Joel Shafer joel@connect.net
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| No, I don't have it working yet. However, I've made progress, and I thought my experience might be helpful to others who are more savvy with the GNU tools than I am. - I did get everything to compile. As Luis suggested, the -nostdinc flag takes care (...) (27 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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