Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Am 04.09.2010 01:40, schrieb Arturo Gurrola: Error while installing insight: config.status: creating po/Makefile make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/mspgcc4-inst/build/insight-6.8-1-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 And then it just exists. And there's surely a lot of logging before - last time I checked because Tcl tried things that the Cygwin headers no longer support. The command in the script is: sh do-gdb.sh /cygdrive/c/mspgcc4/ 6.8-1 http://ftp.uni-kl.de; build insight This is, of course, before installing gdb (as stated in the new buildgcc perl script). Any solution? Not to my knowledge. Insight builds its own Tcl/Tk libraries, and that fails since Cygwin reached 1.7.X earlier this year. It has been discussed on and off on the Insight mailing list, to no avail, and I personally lack the time and interest to look into that. Insight looks unmaintained. You might succeed with Cygwin 1.7.7, and possibly by removing the tcl/tk/itcl/itk libraries and installing those system-wide from the Insight sources between unpacking and configuring Insight, and possibly also tweaking configure options a bit. No guarantees though that that will work. Good luck MA
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Peter Bigot wrote: We could also use a downstream packager for OSX, so people won't have to fight with the build process. (Ubuntu and Windows, too; I think Rob Spanton's doing Fedora/RedHat, though we haven't coordinated the release processes yet: that should be done with the return to mspgcc.) Maybe a good way to provide MSPGCC4 (and related stuff) to the Mac users would be to feed releases into one of the existing open source porting and distribution channels for the Mac, such as Fink or MacPorts. I previously used Fink (which provides for both source and binary distribution), but I presently use MacPorts (which I think just distributes source) be because it seems to stay more up-to-date. While a new Mac user of MSPGCC4 would still need to build a huge pile of software if it was distributed via MacPorts, installation would be reduced to installing the base MacPorts installer package and then typing sudo port install mspgcc4 (or something like that). The difficult task of getting the all of the necessary tools and pre-requisites in place prior to building MSPGCC4 would then be mostly automated, and it would fall upon the downstream packager person to submit new releases into MacPorts and do whatever patching, hacking, pre-requisite definition, etc. that's necessary to make things painless for the end users. In case you're not already familiar with MacPorts, you can take a quick peek here to get an idea of what it's about: http://www.macports.org/ The Mac is just different enough from the mainstream open source build platforms (i.e., various Linuxes) that installing stuff through MacPorts is often much easier than trying to port Linux-centric source distributions. Even when I choose to build something from the original source distribution instead of an available MacPort package (i.e., to get bleeding-edge code releases that haven't been ported yet), I try to get as much of my build environment and pre-requisite libraries as possible through MacPorts. I might be willing to take on the task of feeding MSPGCC4 stuff into MacPorts at some point, but I'm still wallowing in build issues and learning-curve stuff too much to commit to that just yet. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: A fully open-source implementation exists, it's called mspdebug (http://mspdebug.sourceforge.net/). And the protocol is not a USB one, it's a serial protocol over a USB-to-serial chip (the TI3410). So, all you need is a driver for the TI3410 for your OS, and you're done. Thank you for the hint! With only minor pain, I got mspdebug to build on my Mac, found and installed the serial port driver from TI and configured it to recognize my eZ430 dongle and MSP430-UIF device, and successfully programmed a simple LED-blinker program into the MSP430F2012 from my original eZ430 kit. Hooray! With my eZ430-RF2500, I found it to be necessary to use the --fet-force-id option to get mspdebug to correctly identify the chip type and program it properly. Otherwise, it seems to work ok. I am very pleased that I now have a no-code-size-limitation, open-source toolchain for the MSP430, and that I can build for and program the devices on my Mac without needing to bring up another OS in a virtual machine. It took some minor pain to get everything up and running, but I think it was well worth the effort. Woohoo! BTW, I also tried the FET-Pro430 Lite program, and it worked just fine on my virtual WinXP machine. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Am 02.09.2010 20:38, schrieb Mark J. Blair: On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Arturo Gurrola wrote: try184.c:1:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory and then Note that you must have libcurses developer headers installed. Abort.. I'm also installing MSPGCC4 under Cygwin right now, and I ran into the same problem. I have libncurses-devel installed, which provides ncurses/curses.h, but MSPGCC4's do-gdb.sh script looks for curses.h and doesn't find it. Since the compilation runs so terribly slowly for me (I'm running WinXP in a virtual machine on my Mac, and the compilation is easily an order of magnitude slower than it was when doing it natively under OSX), and buildgcc.pl does a brute-force compilation which will rebuild gcc before it even gets around to choking on gdb... I decided to try skipping do-gdb.sh and instead compile gdb manually. Sorry for that, I've done that quick hack as an assistance to newbies, but evidently it backfires on recent Cygwin and some Solaris versions. I have now figured that finding curses.h reliably and portably is a major undertaking (way more time that I can spend), and will anyways not necessarily match what ./configure digs out later, so let's just remove the check. As a quick fix, remove the exit 1 line related to the curses.h complain from do-gdb.sh before running buildgcc.pl. I'm submitting a series of fixes to Peter, including a fix for this, for review. Best regards MA
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
On Sep 3, 2010, at 7:33 AM, M. Andree wrote: Sorry for that, I've done that quick hack as an assistance to newbies, but evidently it backfires on recent Cygwin and some Solaris versions. I have now figured that finding curses.h reliably and portably is a major undertaking (way more time that I can spend), and will anyways not necessarily match what ./configure digs out later, so let's just remove the check. Don't feel too bad... making any complex package build portably can be very difficult! I'm up and running with MSPGCC4 and mspdebug under OSX now, and I'm really happy that this fully open and complete toolchain exists. I hope that I'll be able to contribute in some small way towards its growth and improvement, because I believe that it's beneficial for development tools to be free in order to enable and stimulate creation of new and better things. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
MA: Thanks. The patches look good, and I've merged them to the next branch of the git repository. MB: Help is certainly welcome. Wiki pages with updated instructions, especially how to build (especially on windows) would address the biggest problems; perhaps, having recently succeeded, you could document what you did? As we're moving back to putting everything under mspgcc, and we have to keep mspgcc4 somewhat stable due to external references to its content by the WASP project, I'd suggest that be done on the existing mspgcc wiki at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mspgcc/index.php?title=MSPGCC_Wiki If you need somebody to give you write access, contact me directly with your sourceforge userid. Just mark the stuff that's currently only relevant to mspgcc4; I don't think we're going to change the existing mspgcc infrastructure, just supersede it. I'm hoping for a new release under the mspgcc project within a couple weeks, with my updates that eliminate all the specialized hard-coded chip-specific addresses and assumptions. Unfortunately, real work has started to interfere again, so it's already later than I'd intended. We could also use a downstream packager for OSX, so people won't have to fight with the build process. (Ubuntu and Windows, too; I think Rob Spanton's doing Fedora/RedHat, though we haven't coordinated the release processes yet: that should be done with the return to mspgcc.) Peter On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote: On Sep 3, 2010, at 7:33 AM, M. Andree wrote: Sorry for that, I've done that quick hack as an assistance to newbies, but evidently it backfires on recent Cygwin and some Solaris versions. I have now figured that finding curses.h reliably and portably is a major undertaking (way more time that I can spend), and will anyways not necessarily match what ./configure digs out later, so let's just remove the check. Don't feel too bad... making any complex package build portably can be very difficult! I'm up and running with MSPGCC4 and mspdebug under OSX now, and I'm really happy that this fully open and complete toolchain exists. I hope that I'll be able to contribute in some small way towards its growth and improvement, because I believe that it's beneficial for development tools to be free in order to enable and stimulate creation of new and better things. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd ___ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Peter Bigot wrote: MB: Help is certainly welcome. Wiki pages with updated instructions, especially how to build (especially on windows) would address the biggest problems; perhaps, having recently succeeded, you could document what you did? I'd rather document what I did on the Mac side... my whole goal is to eliminate my need to ever touch Windows, and I was only building there because I didn't know yet that I could flash and debug chips under OS X with mspdebug! We could also use a downstream packager for OSX, so people won't have to fight with the build process. (Ubuntu and Windows, too; I think Rob Spanton's doing Fedora/RedHat, though we haven't coordinated the release processes yet: that should be done with the return to mspgcc.) I'm not sure if I know how to do that (particularly, capturing any needed prerequisites from MacPorts or Fink), but I might look into that if somebody more experienced in that area doesn't grab the task first. It took a bit of pain to build the compiler toolchain, build mspdebug, find-patch-install needed kernel extensions and so forth, and it'd be really nice if future Mac users could just drag a folder out of a .dmg or double-click a .pkg! I'm still not quite at the finish line, since Insight wouldn't build for me and I decided to put off debugging that until I got the other stuff basically working. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.
[Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Hello everyone, I'm installing MSPGCC4 through Cygwin on windows (command: perl buildgcc.pl). BinUtils, GCC and Libc have installed correctly so far. But then when it comes to GDB (command in the script: bash do-gdb.sh /cygdrive/c/mspgcc4/ 7.1 http://ftp.uni-kl.de; build gdb), and after Unpacking gdb... and a bunch of patching file ..., I get try184.c:1:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory and then Note that you must have libcurses developer headers installed. Abort.. Now, I do have the package Libs (and a bunch of others) which contains some libncurses... files in my Cygwin installation. And I do have the file curses.h somewhere in my mspgcc4 directory. Should I install a specific package for Cygwin? Or should I copy curses.h to a specific directory? Thanks in advance.
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Not a cygwin user, so I'm reaching here, but there may be a package libcurses-devel (or libncurses-devel) that you need in order to get the headers. This is generally the fix for this problem when it arises under Linux. Unless you're sure the curses.h you found matches the libncurses library, I do not recommend copying it into the gdb source area. You'll probably just find that there's another header that's missing too. Peter On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Arturo Gurrola mgurr...@gdl.cinvestav.mxwrote: Hello everyone, I'm installing MSPGCC4 through Cygwin on windows (command: perl buildgcc.pl). BinUtils, GCC and Libc have installed correctly so far. But then when it comes to GDB (command in the script: bash do-gdb.sh /cygdrive/c/mspgcc4/ 7.1 http://ftp.uni-kl.de; build gdb), and after Unpacking gdb... and a bunch of patching file ..., I get try184.c:1:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory and then Note that you must have libcurses developer headers installed. Abort.. Now, I do have the package Libs (and a bunch of others) which contains some libncurses... files in my Cygwin installation. And I do have the file curses.h somewhere in my mspgcc4 directory. Should I install a specific package for Cygwin? Or should I copy curses.h to a specific directory? Thanks in advance. -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd ___ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Arturo Gurrola wrote: try184.c:1:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory and then Note that you must have libcurses developer headers installed. Abort.. I'm also installing MSPGCC4 under Cygwin right now, and I ran into the same problem. I have libncurses-devel installed, which provides ncurses/curses.h, but MSPGCC4's do-gdb.sh script looks for curses.h and doesn't find it. Since the compilation runs so terribly slowly for me (I'm running WinXP in a virtual machine on my Mac, and the compilation is easily an order of magnitude slower than it was when doing it natively under OSX), and buildgcc.pl does a brute-force compilation which will rebuild gcc before it even gets around to choking on gdb... I decided to try skipping do-gdb.sh and instead compile gdb manually. What I've done so far is: cd build/gdb-7.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.4 --target=msp430 --disable-werror make It failed to find libz and choked on the compilation, so I'm not there just yet. I plan to use the compiler under OSX, but I'm still trying to build it under WinXP so that I can try to use gdb + gdbproxy to download code with my eZ430 dongle or MSP-FET430UIF, which aren't supported under OSX yet. I wouldn't mind using IAR or CCC to download code built by msp430-gcc, but it seems that they want the code in a .d43 format which I don't know how to create with msp430-gcc. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Go to http://www.elprotronic.com and download FET-Pro430. The Lite (free) version has done everything I needed. Use msp430-objcopy to convert the elf output from mspgcc to Intel hex and program with FET-Pro430. You may need to name the file something.hex to get FET-Pro430 to recognize it. Best solution I found prior to mspdebug working under Linux. Peter On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote: On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Arturo Gurrola wrote: try184.c:1:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory and then Note that you must have libcurses developer headers installed. Abort.. I'm also installing MSPGCC4 under Cygwin right now, and I ran into the same problem. I have libncurses-devel installed, which provides ncurses/curses.h, but MSPGCC4's do-gdb.sh script looks for curses.h and doesn't find it. Since the compilation runs so terribly slowly for me (I'm running WinXP in a virtual machine on my Mac, and the compilation is easily an order of magnitude slower than it was when doing it natively under OSX), and buildgcc.pl does a brute-force compilation which will rebuild gcc before it even gets around to choking on gdb... I decided to try skipping do-gdb.sh and instead compile gdb manually. What I've done so far is: cd build/gdb-7.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.4 --target=msp430 --disable-werror make It failed to find libz and choked on the compilation, so I'm not there just yet. I plan to use the compiler under OSX, but I'm still trying to build it under WinXP so that I can try to use gdb + gdbproxy to download code with my eZ430 dongle or MSP-FET430UIF, which aren't supported under OSX yet. I wouldn't mind using IAR or CCC to download code built by msp430-gcc, but it seems that they want the code in a .d43 format which I don't know how to create with msp430-gcc. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd ___ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Don't have Mac OS X, but mspdebug allows me to use the FETUIF-430 under Fedora 13 on Linux. Infinitely nicer than an ssh terminal under Windows and a shared disk drive. See mspdebug.sourceforge.net. http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_Mac_OS_X#Installing_mspdebug_under_Mac_OS_X On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote: On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Peter Bigot wrote: Go to http://www.elprotronic.com and download FET-Pro430. The Lite (free) version has done everything I needed. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give that a try. I hope that someday I'll be able to use the TI USB programmers under Mac OS X, without needing to pop up WinXP on a virtual machine. Has anybody looked into reverse-engineering the USB protocols for those programmers so that a fully open-source implementation that supports them can be created? -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd ___ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
Hi Mark,
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:02:48PM -0700, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Peter Bigot wrote:
Go to http://www.elprotronic.com and download FET-Pro430. The Lite (free)
version has done everything I needed.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give that a try.
I hope that someday I'll be able to use the TI USB programmers under Mac OS
X, without needing to pop up WinXP on a virtual machine. Has anybody looked
into reverse-engineering the USB protocols for those programmers so that a
fully open-source implementation that supports them can be created?
A fully open-source implementation exists, it's called mspdebug
(http://mspdebug.sourceforge.net/). And the protocol is not a USB one, it's a
serial protocol over a USB-to-serial chip (the TI3410). So, all you need is a
driver for the TI3410 for your OS, and you're done.
baruch
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Re: [Mspgcc-users] problem while installing GDB of MSPGCC4
I'll look at mspdebug today. I was under the impression that the USB-based TI programmers (including the eZ430 dongles) were only supported under Windows (using TI DLLs) and Linux (using pre-compiled libraries based on proprietary TI code). -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.
