Hi Jim,
On 06/12/2016 12:28 PM, Jim Gregory wrote:
I've lately been using a Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 for my JAL
development environment and have been very happy with it. JAL code
compiles relatively quickly using the compiler, the Vim editor has
syntax highlighting for JAL, I can program most chips that use
low-voltage programming directly from the Pi's GPIO ports very quickly
using Darren Broad's Pickle ICSP software
(https://wiki.kewl.org/dokuwiki/projects:pickle), and I can easily
read and write to the serial port of the PIC without an adapter using
the Pi's serial port pins.
I have a project for RPi with PICs as slave(s). I control the RPi from
my PC over the network (VNC) and after first quick reading I didn't see
a big advantage of compiling and programming on the RPI. But after some
thought I do see advantages/opportunities now!
The biggest challenge has been getting the compiler set up. JALLIB
includes neither an ARM-compatible binary nor the source code for JAL,
so I have to compile it from Kyle's source code and make some changes
to get it to compile.
I have been building the compiler from the sources without problems:
- for eComStation (OS/2) using Watcom C/C++
- to obtain a 64-bits Linux executable.
FWIW, the changes that are required are:
1. remove '-Werror' from one of the options in the Makefile.inc, and
2. add a 'bin' directory to the source code tree at the same level as
the 'src' directory
For the 64-bits Linux version I had similar issues (and added the -O2
option).
For eComStation I used the Watcom make utility and my own makefiles.
Would there be enough demand by users to include an ARM-compatible
binary with JALLIB, or at least a version of the source code that
might compiled a bit more easily for the Pi?
What is 'enough demand'?
I think it is good to add an RPi executable to Jallib, and maybe also
the ICSP facility.
Regards, Rob.
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*Rob H*amerling - http://www.robh.nl
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