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| (...) Dave, first thank you for NQC and its Mac support. If only its collegues weren't such a headache! I am using a serial tower with a Keyspan adapter and the setup works great for NQC following your readme file. I had been wondering though, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) I was able to get NQC working with the USB tower under Mac OS X pretty easily. IMHO, support for an application to directly access USB devices is pretty good. If anyone is trying this, feel free to grab the OSX/USB code I wrote for NQC (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) If I remember correctly, the tty devices will block in open() until they see some handshake (perhaps DCD) from the other side, while cu devices open right away and ignore handshake. I'd suggest taking a look at the code that initializes the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) 8?) Only suggestion I have here is the Darwin developer mailing list(s). Or even the doco with their version may explain how to build a cross-compiler. They may have removed support, though unlikely if configure accepted the h8 target. They (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Looks like you're probably the first to try this, so good luck! But if the Darwin version of cc can be built to support the h8, you're still gonna have to (most likely) make changes to firmdl & dll programs to get them working with the Mac. Do (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Has anyone successfully installed legOS on Mac OS X? The OS has a FreeBSD UNIX-based layer, called Darwin, so I've heard that it shouldn't be too hard. Only, I'm finding that it is... My UNIX experience isn't vast, so I feel like I've tried (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I haven't tried this, but, you should probably get the gcc source from the Apple CVS server? (URL) heard that they were folding their Darwin modifications back into the real gcc source, that's why gnu.org isn't shipping it yet. For now the Apple CVS (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Seb, It would help if you posted info about what you've tried, and what the results were. I don't use OS X, but I know a lot about FreeBSD, which by most accounts is fairly close to Darwin. I suspect a few others here know even more 8?) (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| ROSCO, I realise that would indeed be helpful! Didn't want a long and boring first post however... I've basically having a problem bulding gcc as a cross compiler. I started with the legOS HOWTO pages at (URL) . There it suggests using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) From what I've heard, the gcc port to the mac is extremely old and ugly, and nobody's putting in the effort to make a better one. I see little point in making one now with MacOS X virtually right around the corner. Although now that I think (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Actually, NCQ on the mac just works fine. LegOS works fine under FreeBSD which works and install's fine under the VirtualPC (Just from a walnut creek cdrom). Linux works fine under the VirtualPC as well, but none of the install disk's I tried (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) ld in the binutils) does not build correctly in LinuxPPC. ld gets all sorts of errors about 'relocation truncated to fit.' I've had the same results with egcs and gcc-2.95, which is making me suspect binutils & ld. Another list member had the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) well, actually legOS wasn't ported, because legOS is an OS for the RCX. What was ported to windows, but AFAIK mostly not by the legOS developers, was the compiler used to build legOS, speak: gcc for the Hitachi 8300 processor. Additionally (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Martin Cornelius schrieb: (...) You'd need make, too. The configure scripts for those gcc, binutils and make will probably also require a shell of some variety. If there is a binary distribution of native gcc, make and bash for the Mac, building the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I got my Mindstorms this summer, and I've been subscribed to the list since around the same time. Since then I've been playing around extensively with NQC. I haven't attempted to make the jump to legOS so far for two reasons. First, I have a Mac. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-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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| (...) Your msg is propably not well formed enough. Just fetch a copy of nqc_src_1.2 or higher (unix, mac and lesser OS-es available) and you end up with a command ./nqc -msg XXX where XXX is a magic number :-) Which translates to a valid msg. If you (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Chris, check if gnu tools (gcc and binutils) is available for MAC, I guess they are: (URL) says: ---...--- Newsflash: gcc is included in Mac OS X Server after all. Apple just renamed it to cc. To make apps see gcc, open a terminal and type: ln -s (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Hello, I've decided to post this question since I've not found the answer so far in previous posts. Has anyone expolored building a legOS system on the Macintosh? I've just entered the world of RC, and am intrigued by the possibilities of using (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) well, i got it and compiled everything using linux 2.2.13 and glibc 2.01. My native compiler is gcc 2.95.1, for cross compiling i built gcc 2.95.2, after applying the rcx-interrupt patch. compiling the dll and makelx utilities was a little (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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