Hi All
I'm wondering if anybody else has had problems upgrading from TinyOS 1.1.15
- and I can't find any recent suggestions on this topic in the archives.
I've been running with the latest cygwin based environment from the pre-2.0
and which has been stable for the last 2+ years. 

I have a well beaten up windows workstation  XP PROF with the latest updates
and a laptop with Vista Business ..


I followed the Cygwin Tutorial instructions on upgrading
http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.x/doc/html/upgrade-tinyos.html 
- when it came to install the tinyos-tools-1.2.4-2.cygwin.i386.rpm I got 


Giveio-install.exe complaining about "entry point_getreent could not be
located in the dll cygwin1.dll" . 

I reinstalled the reference cygwin a couple of times and couldn't get past
this - something really wrong in my setup that the install isn't fixing.

So then I attempted a clean install of the reference tools - renaming my old
c:\tinyos\cygwin 
and letting it build c:\tinyos\cygwin\... tool chain.

So now I have TinyOs 2.0 tools. 
On adding my TinyOs tree (1.1.15) and knitting it into the tools it then
started to compile my tree, hurrah .. but ended up with 

Nesc1.exe - Entry Point Not Found  " The procedure entry point basename
could not be located in the dll cygwn1.dll

By this time - I'd taken at least 8 hours to get here.

So is anybody using the Cygwin tools as per the tutorial.? Any  suggestions
as to where I should start.
Is this supported under windows Vista. I tried to put an environment on my
Vista portable a couple of months ago, and Cygwin didn't want to run on it
from what I remember.

So I tried the UbunTos route - thanks for Kevin Klueska 's good instructions
and setting up the basic model - and after another 4 hours managed to get
2.0 App Blink to compile - Vmware/XP Prof and VmPlayer/Vista Business- but
the environment isn't connected in with Windows - and I'm going to have
trouble with the Windows tool chain - so I'm not seeing this as a viable
option.

So know I've downgraded my XP workstation (switched out my directories) back
to the one where I rebuilt to the recommended Cygwin - and been running this
for a week. Whats interesting is that it fails after about 20 compiles -
kaput, does something weird, and requires a windows reboot. This has
happened about 5 times in the last week . So the recommended Cygwin
environment supplied is slightly different and less stable  than the
environment derived from following the Tinyos 1.1.15 upgrade path.

Many thanks for any help

Neil Hancock


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