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Re: InstallShield for legOS
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:31:47 GMT
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"Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message
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> You may be wondering why I am striving for a Windows native version of
> the compiler. It is my belief that the majority of Windows based RCX
> enthusiasts will be inexperienced with other operating systems, possibly
> even new to programming. Requiring the learning of a whole new
> operating system (the Cygwin pseudo-Unix shell) is a considerable
> barrier to learning legOS.
I think that you should still reconsider using Cygwin anyway. You can
actually build much of the LegOS stuff without ever using the Cygwin shell,
so there isn't a huge learning curve there. As an example go into your demo
directory and type "make clean all". You'll see that it clean builds the
demos just fine.
The entire legOS would build from the native shell if the for loops in the
top level Makefile were changed.
Doing a native port of gcc/egcs is a huge task, and I think it would be
better to figure out how to repackage the minimal amount of cygwin necessary
to get the LegOS build system working. The only issue would be cygwin
licensing. I noticed yesterday that Cygwin seems to be commercial, and that
they're last beta is freely available. I don't know if we could legally
repackage it as part of a LegOS installer to get things working on Windows.
alex
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| (...) Ah, that's the mistake I had made. Looking closer, am I correct in assuming that Cygwin is only required to build the cross compiler? What about the utility program such as firmdll.exe? We can ignore the need to compile the cross-compiler. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | InstallShield for legOS
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| As mentioned by Markus, I am working on an Windows InstallShield program for legOS. It is my hope to create, with assistance, a complete installation package for legOS and required tools. Running the installer will create a legOS developement (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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