MinGW DeviationTX build environment

New version v1.2 released!

MinGW based DeviationTX build environment v1.2 has a nice documentation and there is an installer

It should work for x32 and x64 based Windows systems and was tested on Windows 10 x64 building the latest repo plus emu(s).

It is fast and easy to edit your repo, test and edit language files with the emulator or just build the latest version of a repo before someone else will do it

Everything will be extracted to C:\MinGW (also the toolchain). So it does not matter if you already have a toolchain installed

Use "hg clone bitbucket.org/deviationtx/deviation " as this is the latest repo

MinGW DeviationTX v1.2 on DropBox

MinGW DeviationTX v1.2 on MEGA

You can use TortoiseHg as the source control system
or have a look at the documentation for a native MinGW version.

PS: The installer is about 207MB but will uncompress
to about 853MB when using the offical repo.

As kenkenlau mentioned: If you have a Windows username with spaces in it and get into trouble please create a new user without spaces and run MinGW there.

if i type in the command "hg clone", a system message appears
"hg command not found".

thank you in advance for the response.

cheers
Graziano

Hi coaster.

I forgot to mention that you also have to install TortoiseHg for the source control system.

I will enable a pure MinGW version of Mercurial later the day or tomorrow

Thank you for trying it out!

installed the scs and now the build work's as you
described in the manual.

thank you very much, this build environment is a great help
for "non professionals" like me

happy new year and

cheers
Graziano

Thank you

I think the idea from sbstnp with the dedicated VM image is also a nice idea but was a bit oversized for me

I like the tight integration into Windows and the easy way to use different source control systems and similar things.

Now we have two nice platforms for diffent demands and everybody can more easily join the project as translator, developer or just someone who want to have just the latest version available

I also wish you and all the others here a happy new year!

And be careful with the firework

RugWarrior wrote: Thank you

I think the idea from sbstnp with the dedicated VM image is also a nice idea but was a bit oversized for me

I like the tight integration into Windows and the easy way to use different source control systems and similar things.

Now we have two nice platforms for diffent demands and everybody can more easily join the project as translator, developer or just someone who want to have just the latest version available

I also wish you and all the others here a happy new year!

And be careful with the firework

Hey, nice work, I'm sure some people will prefer a pure windows dev environment.

My home is Linux, my day job is Linux, I breathe, drink and eat Linux every day since too many years ago, so for me Linux was a natural way of doing things

I think more options are always better

Best of both worlds

It is also always a nice thing to learn new things and possibilities.

I liked to play around with VirtualBox, ArchLinux and had a nice time with Inno Setup script files

So all in all I hope that we can inspire the people a bit and get them to work on this great project. If we can reach this than I am happy!

RugWarrior,
thanks for your work. Now I can compile under Windows without the need of a linux vm.
I expected that the tools PB mentioned on his bitbucket-page (fltk, portaudio) were installed, but they weren't. Would it be hard to integrate them? Without you can not compile the emulators.

Edit: libportaudio-2.dll must be found by Windows (copied it to C:\Windows\System32)

Hi rbe2012,

I set up a clean Windows 7 x64 in a VMware to test it...

I just installed MinGW DeviationTX v1.1, installed the hg tools, made a "hg clone bitbucket.org/PhracturedBlue/deviation ", "cd deviation/src".

Then I made a "make release" and then "make TARGET=emu_devo8 WINDOWS=1" and ran it via "./emu_devo8.exe"...

And for me it is working fine... but you have to set "WINDOWS=1" or it will not work!

Please try again

I will try this again, thank you for your test. I have to prepare a clean vm to start...
When I tried it in my xp-vm I had to add linker options (-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++) to get rid off error messages from Windows when starting the emulator (but I startet it from the explorer, not from MinGW - that could make the difference).
On my Win7-64 laptop I did not manage to start the emulator because of a missing libportaudio-2.dll - even when I copied it to the system32-dir. regsvr32 told me that it can not be registered...
I try again later after some cleaning.

I didn't have the time for a fresh vm yet.
On my laptop the emulators are working when I start them as RugWarrior mentioned with ./emu_dexo8.exe from MinGW. Starting from the Windows Explorer throws an error message.

It's some time ago but now I tried it several times on a real XP and in virtual machines and it always worked as a charm.
Thank you very much!!

Thank you!

Sorry for a silly question, I m newbie in ARM dev.

Is Keil MDK good to be the IDE of Deviation? or MinGW is a must?

If there is a suggested IDE for starter(who have no exp on ARM/Linux) would be nice.

Thanks

Hi kenkenlau,

having gone through this a few months ago, I would strongly suggest that you stay with the MinGW based environment. Once you have this up and running you can look at moving to other (Keil) IDE's.

This way you have a forum to assist if you have problems with building.

Start here: www.deviationtx.com/articles/7-development-on-windows
and once you can build the source without errors, try the eclipse IDE.

www.deviationtx.com/articles/15-using-eclipse-with-deviation

Eclipse does have a Keil ARM plugin, however I have not used it.

I use Code::Blocks IDE to build the EMU (I was making changes to the GUI). once everything looks fine I just use command line to make release the firmware.
Code::Blocks has decent code completion support. code browsing is very convenient with find declaration/implementation/occurrence ... context menu.

Code::Blocks support multiple targets so in theory you can set it up to do exactly the makefile does. it is based on wxWidget and runs very smooth on most of my computers.

ColdFire wrote: I use Code::Blocks IDE to build the EMU (I was making changes to the GUI). once everything looks fine I just use command line to make release the firmware.
Code::Blocks has decent code completion support. code browsing is very convenient with find declaration/implementation/occurrence ... context menu.

Thanks alot.

I have spent some time with the Mingw and everything seems working fine except the Login username must have no space. (Win XP 32) Otherwise the make will have error.

I simply create another user and reinstall it again then everything is smooth.

Last time typed so many command was in MS-DOS age hope you guys dont mind some stupid questions coming soon.

kenkenlau, thank you for pointing this out!

Would like to try this out, but cant download it

I was able to download about 50% of it last night before a power outage. Retried today and now this:

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