Hi Phil

To repeat - Cygwin does not support Windows Vista at this time - when I
tried it, as I didn't know that I shouldn't, it failed :). Of course in the
usual course of things, it takes some time to figure out where the issue is
- is it just my machine or as in this case it just ain't supported.

I just tried to get into the docs.tinyos.net - it worked and I've made an
update there. There are two parallel sets of almost the same information all
of them hosted under tinyos.net - so managed to add an update to the
docs.tinyos.net, but not at the actual point it will be used - cause it
ain't in the Wiki yet. 


Do you know anybody who has managed (or documented) getting a pure 'C' file
out of the nesC compile that can then be fed into the WinAvr/AvrStudio tool
chain. I can't find a discussion on the tools - or at least the tools
working group is a "Fort Knox" closed discussion group :) 

I believe both compilers are based on gcc - though the WinAvr avr-cpp
reports 4.2.2 and  nescC reports 3.4.4 - so its not clear to me why app.c
can't be processed by WinAvr through AvrStudio. (except of course its
probably staring me in the face, and I just can't see it)

It would be so nice to be able to have an open discussion about it and for
the community to be able to understand what the issues are. I did massage
and grind away at app.c to remove all its inconsistencies, but then avr-cpp
barfed with a compiler error, so submitted it to the WinAVR bug list.
 

Much obliged for any pointers
Cheers
Neil 





-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:47 PM
To: Neil Hancock
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] RE: TinyOS 2.0 upgrade & AVR studio integration


On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Neil Hancock wrote:
> Hi All
> Just an update note in case anybody else has trouble upgrading to T2  
> (I
> suppose it's the T1 dinosaurs finding evolution has problems -  
> starting from
> scratch is  easier).
>
> I took a clean machine and built the tools from scratch and then  
> UPGRADED
> cygwin to the latest and it worked. This was recommended to me early  
> on -
> but I guess I was following the instructions.
>
> So to repeat my experience .... the instructions at
> http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.x/doc/html/upgrade-tinyos.html  -  
> failed on
> three separate machines, and don't work in a Vista environment.

Hm, that is frustrating. Technically, 2.0.2 doesn't support Vista; at  
the time, that didn't seem *too* unreasonable, but it's quite a bit  
later now, and with Microsoft's intention to phase out XP, it's  
definitely not OK.

>
>
> I've looked for a way to push some notes into the Wiki on this, but  
> doesn't
> seem to be open to that.
>

The Wiki should be open. Can you comment on what prevented you from  
adding information? If that's the case, it's completely against the  
idea of the wiki!


> Some information from investigations
> CYGWIN doesn't support Vista -  with a fair number of cygwin users   
> talking
> about lack of support.

Wait -- did you get it working on Vista or not?

Phil

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