Trouble with arm-elf-gcc

[Enmar]

I must be retarded or something because I've reinstalled cygwin about 5 time and it still can't find arm-elf-gcc . I even found the file but it is not in the right place and I don't know how to move it without messing everything up.

B.T.W. I have read all the posts about this and I still haven't fixed it.
P.S. It is under E:/cygwin/opt/(where it put all the files required to compile rockbox)

[saratoga]

You probably need to add it to your path.  The guide to setting up the compiler in linux explains this step.

[Enmar]

Guess I murdered Cygwin because i got this message:
: command not found
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: command not found
: command not found
: command not found
': not a valid identifier
: command not found
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'ash: /etc/profile: line 83: syntax error near unexpected token `in
bash: /etc/profile: line 83: `case "`echo "_$0" | /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:low
'r:]' | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^_//'`" in

Now I have to reinstall it... again.  

P.S. Thanks for the quick reply.

[bluebrother]

looks like a broken cygwin install. But: any reason not to use the vmware image? It's much easier to install and usage is quite similar.

[Enmar]

Umm i just tried it and I WILL NEVER USE IT AGAIN after all if I wanted to go back to the age when we didn't have internet, GUI file browser's and full color websites, I'll build myself a time machine.

BTW if you haven't figured it out VMware pissed me off.

[bascule]

Hmmm...it works for me

Admittedly I'm only patching and building, not creating patches, but I know I can FTP straight out of the terminal window to upload builds to my website and I can also use all the facilities of my XP box to browse and modify the SVN files (by connecting Windows Explorer to the virtual filesystem) before Alt-Tabbing back to VMWare to make a build.

Just my two ha'porth

[Enmar]

how do I do that??? I mean access windows applications?

[Nate!]

Have you tried the stuff that is recommended at the end of the VMWare Devlepment Platform Wiki?  The last section is entitled "Additional Tips" and goes over running : "vmware-toolbox" for enabling copy/paste functionality.  It also covers running WINE, which from what I gather, allows you to access Windows apps from within the Debian image.

I can't really help you with your Cygwin issues.  The only reason I use it is for running a Sim from Windows without having to launch a build evnironment.  If it wasn't for that, I'd use one of the Linux envr because compiling is so much faster.  I haven't tried to compile for a few weeks now: ever since the Screen Rotation patch came out for the Gigabeat's.

[bascule]

...running : "vmware-toolbox" for enabling copy/paste functionality.  It also covers running WINE, which from what I gather, allows you to access Windows apps from within the Debian image....

That isn't what I meant.

In Windows Explorer address bar, you can type \\debian\user to open a file browser window onto all the SVN files. Thus you can use Notepad++ or whatever to modify the source files or drag and drop downloaded patches into the correct folder etc. That's all, but it does make life pretty easy. I'm really liking the VMWare method

[scorche]

Umm i just tried it and I WILL NEVER USE IT AGAIN after all if I wanted to go back to the age when we didn't have internet, GUI file browser's and full color websites, I'll build myself a time machine.

BTW if you haven't figured it out VMware pissed me off.

What are you talking about?  VMware has a windows manager (as opposed to cygwin's box of text).  It should have an internet connection (otherwise, you couldn't download the source).  And you should be able to browse the files just fine from the samba share.  I don't see how websites come into play here, as this is an environment designed to build and develop Rockbox with.  If you really need a GUI file browser or a web browser for some odd reason, just apt-get anything you want.

Point is, you have really confused me by going from cygwin to VMware and calling VMware the ancient one.

[bluebrother]

Regardless of what's ancient or not:

This is about developing Rockbox. It's about getting your hands dirty. Don't expect it to be some MS-VisualStudio-doing-everything-for-you thing, because there is no such thing. Don't expect it to be icon driven or fancy flashing colored. It's about the real work.

If it's too hard for you working with a command line prompt and stuff you should really consider to stop trying to develop for Rockbox. Unless you are willing to learn this stuff.

[Nate!]

On a lighter note:    Are you still having issues with VMWare?  Is there something that you can't or wish to do that you haven't figured out yet?  Are you back up and compiling yet?

[Enmar]

I tried to connect to it but my network went down a while ago and I can not even share files with other computers.

The reason I said what I did was because I tried and tried to do what it said and I could not accomplish it.

Just a couple of minutes ago:

YIPPEE I GOT IT TO WORK YAY WAHOO. MY NETWORK WORKS AND BY ASSOCIATION SO DOES VMWARE!!!!!!!;)

Now to fix my flash drive

Once again I sincerely apologize for my previous post. We have all been there when no matter what you try nothing works. So please try to understand my frustration.

[Enmar]

Now on a calmer note: how do I change the startup image???



P.S. YAY I AM NOT RETARDED AFTER ALL!!!!

[Enmar]

First successful compiling Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:21 AM