Comments on: Building brickOS tools on Mac OS X

By: Suraine

Suraine — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:45:46 +0000

Hihi, im new in RCX stuff especially brickOS.
Im not a computer science student, that’s why im not really familliar with stuffs related to system.
Regarding to the discussion above, it seems that u guys face some problem in brickOS installation.

My installation of brickOS with cygwin in my window xp regarding to the website below:
http://tarpit.rmc.ca/lesauvage/eee243/labs/resources/install.html
ran smoothly with the instruction.

It provides two basic exe files, and there are enough.
however, their version is 5.0.3.32.
Im not sure whether it is the newest version.

hey, i need some help on brickOS, so if i have some question, can i ask u a favour?

thanks.

By: Kevin Ruland

Kevin Ruland — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:25:03 +0000

Marc,

I recently went through the brickos-0.9 cross-compiler build thing under cygwin. I'll send you my notes later tonight. I suspect they are very similar.

I also wanted to do the rom dump so I could try the RCX emulator and had to hack the dump program some. I'll send that on too.

Kevin

By: dominic

dominic — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:03:06 +0000

ok, here we go:

If you go here

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brickos/0.9.0.dfsg-4

and download

http://librarian.launchpad.net/7243563/brickos_0.9.0.dfsg-4.diff.gz

to your brickos-0.9.0. then in the same folder do this

gunzip brickos_0.9.0.dfsg-4.diff.gz

then

patch < brickos_0.9.0.dfsg-4.diff

then you’ll have some new debian files that the debian installer automatically uses, one of them is a patch file that fixes the problem, it’s in the file 001_gcc3.3 so we just apply it.

patch -p 1 < 001_gcc3.3

then you can build brickos with gcc > 3.2 and binutils 2.16

I had to do this on windows xp + cygwin, using gcc-3.3.3, newlib-1.15, binutils-2.16 and brickos-0.9.0 and everything ‘appears’ to have build ok, but i’ve yet to test it. still, no errors so far and that’s got to be a good thing

I’d also take a look at the other debian-supplied patches, there’s probably some other good stuff in there too.

By: dominic

dominic — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:45:45 +0000

I found this:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2006/11/msg00232.html

seems to mention that the bug with the invalid operands is fixed. I’m going to try and find out more so that i can use the latest binutils.

By: David

David — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:33:43 +0000

YEAH!!! Got the same error…please give us (2) ideas … I can’t believe there’s other folks trying to do this right now

By: Lars-erik

Lars-erik — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:28:18 +0000

I failed to install binutils, see below. Any ideas?

running a Mac Pro

Kind regards Lars-Erik

../configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=h8300-hms Config.guess failed to determine the host type. You need to specify one. Usage: configure [OPTIONS] [HOST]

Current default compiler: gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)