[ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

[ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

[Andy Voelkel]

I am trying to bring up the ECOS toolset on a Windows machine. After
carefully following the installation instructions on the ECOS website
(including the installation of the Cygwin tools), I tried to fire up the
configuration tool by double clicking on its icon in a Windows Explorer. I
got the message:

"This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem".

The file cygwin1.dll is indeed on my maching, in C:\progs\cygwin\bin. Is
this some sort of path or environment variable problem?

So, I thought I'd try invoking the configuration tool from a bash shell. I
negotiated my way to the directory containing the executable, and invoked
it. This time the graphic interface came up, spewed a bunch of text into its
output window, and closed itself. As best I can tell, many of the error
messages contained the string "this package does not have any valid version
subdirectories".

Can anyone help me figure out what is causing these problems?

While I'm at it, I might as well as whether there are many folks using
Windows as their ECOS development machine. ECOS is looking to be an
attractive RTOS choice, but I don't relish the idea of every developer
needing a second computer just so they can run the ECOS toolset from Linux.

- Andy Voelkel


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Re: [ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

[David Brennan]

Andy Voelkel wrote:

>I am trying to bring up the ECOS toolset on a Windows machine. After
>carefully following the installation instructions on the ECOS website
>(including the installation of the Cygwin tools), I tried to fire up the
>configuration tool by double clicking on its icon in a Windows Explorer. I
>got the message:
>
>"This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.
>Re-installing the application may fix this problem".
>
>The file cygwin1.dll is indeed on my maching, in C:\progs\cygwin\bin. Is
>this some sort of path or environment variable problem?
>
>  
>
Yes. That is not in your path. And see comment below.

>So, I thought I'd try invoking the configuration tool from a bash shell. I
>negotiated my way to the directory containing the executable, and invoked
>it. This time the graphic interface came up, spewed a bunch of text into its
>output window, and closed itself. As best I can tell, many of the error
>messages contained the string "this package does not have any valid version
>subdirectories".
>
>  
>
Did you set ECOS_REPOSITORY? Within whatever your basic installation 
directory (/opt/ecos) you should have a shell script ecosenv.sh (or 
ecosenv.csh). I recommend you run that after starting your bash shell.

>Can anyone help me figure out what is causing these problems?
>
>  
>
I imagine the answers to both of these are in the documentation. I don't 
have time to look now. But you should before asking.

>While I'm at it, I might as well as whether there are many folks using
>Windows as their ECOS development machine. ECOS is looking to be an
>attractive RTOS choice, but I don't relish the idea of every developer
>needing a second computer just so they can run the ECOS toolset from Linux.
>
>  
>
The toolset works "fine" under windows. But you will find the command 
line interface is more useful in the long run. It is completely stable 
under windows. I have had some issues with the graphical tool. So I have 
given up on that. But I use the command-line version just fine under 
windows.

>- Andy Voelkel
>
>
>  
>

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RE: [ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

[Andy Voelkel]

Indeed, it works at last! The first time I read through this page, I
misunderstood and thought that I was going to have to migrate to another
config tool that used an OS independent GUI widget set, and was going to
have to rebuild it myself. I didn't realize there was an executable ready to
go.

I does seem to me, though, that there is a real problem for folks wishing to
get started with ECOS using a Windows Host. If they go and get the latest
cygwin tools, following the instructions on the ECOS site, and then get the
ECOS tools, following the same instructions, they will end up with a broken
configtool. 

Maybe it would make sense to take the configtool mentioned below and make it
part of the official release? Or put an entry in the ecos-discuss FAQ under
the Windows install section? I would be willing to help with this if I knew
what to do.

- Andy Voelkel


-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Hans Hübner
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:23 AM
To: Andy Voelkel
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: RE: [ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

Hi Andy,

the configtool binary linked from 
http://ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml works fine.  I'm using it
with 
eCos 2.0.1 without problems.

HTH,
-Hans


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RE: [ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

[Hans Hübner]

Hi Andy,

the configtool binary linked from 
http://ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml works fine.  I'm using it with 
eCos 2.0.1 without problems.

HTH,
-Hans


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RE: [ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

[Andy Voelkel]

Aha! This problem I am seeing is a legit bug. It is described in:

http://bugzilla.ecoscentric.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000095

There is a patch, and the patch seems to have Bart's name in it. (I would
never have found this if I hadn't read the release notes for the new
configtool.)  

Anyway, the problem is, I am such a newbie that I have no idea how to
"install" the patch. Could someone give me a hand?

- Andy Voelkel

P.S. I could install the other version of the config tool as Bart suggested,
but I can't see why that would buy me anything that the patch won't, and the
new configtool apparently does not have the memory layout feature at
present.


-----Original Message-----

>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Voelkel <andy@bushtaxi.com> writes:

    Andy> Can anyone help with this? I'm getting tired of dorking
    Andy> around and not even being able to run the most basic stuff.

Have you tried the version at
http://www.ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml ?

Bart



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