[beagleboard] This is a C++ working code example of using multithreading with semaphores and mutex.

. /* * TestMultiThreading.cpp * * Created on: Mar 27, 2014 * Author: Pat's Machine */ #include stdio.h #include pthread.h #include semaphore.h #include unistd.h #define MODULE_NAMETestMultiThreading #define MODULE_AUTHOR Patrick Ireland #define MODULE_VERSION

[beagleboard] Interrupts on BBB with either Angstrom or Ubuntu

With a cursory exploration, it appears that I am unable to attach interrupt handlers from C++ code. Is this indeed true? Is there a hardware limitation with the BBB that does not allow interrupts? Though tedious to write, I have written Linux device drivers for the Intel architecture but that

[beagleboard] How do I cross compile SQLite on my Eclipse/Windows 7 system for BeagleBone Black Rev C?

I have done ages of C++/C/Java programming on Windows/Linux. I want to build an app for the BeagleBone Black Rev C that uses SQLite. I downloaded the source from SQLite.org and build a new project in Eclipse. I have previously built lots of apps this way for the BeagleBone Black series including

[beagleboard] Problems installing latest JAVA

I am trying to install the latest Java on Debian. I downloaded "jdk-8u111-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar" from Oracle. I uploaded using FileAilla to BBB to root. I tried both auto and binary for Filezilla. I have used Filezilla many times in the past with no problem so it is not my candidate for the

[beagleboard] Debian 9.1.0 with VirtualBox unable to "sudo apt-get install crossbuild-essential-armhf"

I am attempting to install the Debian 9.1.0 system to support BeagleBoneBlack on my Windows 10 system. I am following the Derek Molloy blog site and until I tried to load the "sudo apt-get install libicu-dev:armhf", everything was moving smoothly (within limits of my Linux knowledge).