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(...) 1.1.2 (...) Ok, I got egcs-1.1.2 (plus patch) and rebuilt legOS.srec. Now it works. I did confirm that the compiler is tripping over something in the libs rather than the kernel (at first I only rebuilt the kernel sources and the problem was (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) unfortunately not. AFAIK, nobody has ever managed to compile a dll-capable legOS with gcc-2.95.x, neither with the rcx-compiler patch nor without. (...) Sure, this is exactly the gcc-2.95.2 symptom many people already experienced. There has (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I can't build my own legOS kernel, but I can build .lx files and load them with dll without any problem! It's really liberating to have REAL functions and a REAL C implementation to work with. Right now I'm working on a bot which tries to stay on a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX "locking up" when trying to use dll
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(...) I am seeing exactly the same thing when I built my own legOS.srec from scratch. The kernel seems to run fine (view, on/off, prgm, run buttons) until dll crashes it. (...) Auugh, I too am using gcc-2.95.2. If I use legOS.srec/.lds from the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The standard RCX firmware with its serial protocol could not talk to a GPS, but LegOS could. With LegOS and a GPS we could make robots that could tell where they were. This would be way cool. I want a solar powered toy robot boat with GPS that can (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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