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Re: InstallShield for legOS
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:31:48 GMT
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alex wetmore wrote:
> 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.
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. Few people will wish to do that. We can include working
binaries of the utilities so that the won't need to build them. In addition, a
few unix type programs would be required, e.g. rm, or versions of the various
makefile can be editied to use standard DOS commands.
> The entire legOS would build from the native shell if the for loops in the
> top level Makefile were changed.
That seems like a simple enough change
> 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.
I noticed in my Hitachi directory a file called cygwin1.dll. It is required to
run the cross compiler and was included with the h8 package I grabbed. As an
experiment, I removed the entire Cygnus package from my system. The compiler
runs as long as cygwin1.dll is available.
Rossz
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: InstallShield for legOS
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| "Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message news:387CE039.2906B6...jps.net... (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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