i agree that cygwin is a mess, but there are quite a few TinyOS users out
there using cygwin.
Is there a way to tell NesC to use windows style paths ?


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:14 PM, András Bíró <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, you are right, and I didn't realize you were talking about the
> binary toolchain when you first mentioned this error message.
> Apparently, nesc gives linux style paths to gcc, and the avr-gcc by atmel
> only accepts windows style paths. I will try to compile the toolchain on
> windows, in the next few days, but don't raise your hopes, cygwin+windows
> is a mess, sometimes it gives unexpected errors, and it's really-really
> slow, so I might not have the patience to fix it.
>
> Andris
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Roadstar Runner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The Atmel binaries do not work on Cygwin because of  cygwin/linux  path
>> syntax problems.
>> I get an error avr-gcc.exe: error: /usr/lib/ncc/tdspecs: No such file or
>> directory even though the file is present.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:37 AM, András Bíró <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm finally done with updating the avr toolchain, and I'm happy to
>>> announce a beta release. Installation on debian/ubuntu/any dpkg based
>>> distro:
>>>
>>> #apt-get remove avr-tinyos-base
>>> #apt-get install avr-libc-tinyos-beta
>>>
>>> Revert to the old toolchain:
>>>
>>> #apt-get remove avr-tinyos-base
>>> #apt-get install avr-libc-tinyos
>>>
>>> There's no rpm yet, but if you need it, I could generate it on linux.
>>> However, I don't wan't to build the cygwin packages while we're testing it,
>>> since it's usually a pain to compile on cygwin. If you want to use it on
>>> windows, please use atmel's official 3.4.4 release binary
>>> <http://www.atmel.com/tools/atmelavrtoolchainforwindows.aspx>
>>>
>>> What's new:
>>> GCC 4.8.1 (instead of 4.1.2)
>>> Binutils 2.24 (instead of 2.17)
>>> AVR-libc 1.8.0 (instead of 1.6.7, but since the old gcc, it barely know
>>> more than 1.4.7)
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> Atmel's pached AVR-GNU Toolchain v3.4.4
>>> <http://distribute.atmel.no/tools/opensource/Atmel-AVR-GNU-Toolchain/3.4.4/>
>>> Buildscripts at $TOSROOT/packaging/avr-344-beta
>>>
>>> I'm using it for a while, didn't have any problem. Please test it, if
>>> you can.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please don't reply this email on the list, it's just an announcement.
>>>
>>> Public discussion is at github:
>>> https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main/issues/293
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Andras Biro
>>>
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>>
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