MinGW DeviationTX build environment

Was able to finish the download today Quick and easy building. Thanks!

Hi adabman,

sorry for the problems!

I will upload it also to Cloudzer

Hi RugWarrior,

Although I can run the emu from within the MinGW shell window, When I try to run from Windows Explorer I get an error dialog saying "The Program can't start because libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is missing from your computer"

Any ideas what I need to do to overcome this issue?

Thanks,
Ian

Thanks FDR,

That works perfectly.

I'm just interested - can you tell me what is different in how the release / nightly build of the emu is made as the pre-built emu doesn't issue this error.

Is it related to post #4857 where rbe2012 reported he had to add linker options?
(and if so could you point me in the direction of where I might need to add them?)

Thanks
Ian

No problem - I'll have a poke around the make files

Found it - thanks to rbe2012

~/deviation/src/target/common_emu/Makefile.inc :-

-LFLAGS = -lfltk
+LFLAGS = -lfltk -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++

I also needed to add libportaudio-2.dll into the ~/deviation/src folder.

In the MinGW shell, I then I used:-
make TARGET=emu_devo7e WINDOWS=1 zip

Edit: I ended up taking FDR's advice and removing the linker options and adding the two missing dlls to the src folder and changing the make file to add them to the emu zipfile.

Ian

Hi Ian,
I actually use the original Makefile.inc and have no error messages. I don't remember what was the point to get rid of them, but they are history.
I confess I always start the emulator via MinGW and did never have those issues since then.

But I recommend not to change the linker flags - for the emulator this might do no harm, but the resulting .exe is different when you include different libraries. Don't do that when you want to build dfu files.

Hi rbe,

Point noted - thanks.

I have a couple of workarounds, so it's no big issue really but, if possible, I would like to understand why we are seeing this difference between our home-built exes and the release ones.

I have tried building MinGW environments using the methods in this thread as well as in the "Development on Windows" article.
Both emu exe files have the same issue when run directly from the Windows explorer - I wonder whether these MinGW environments are subtly different from the one(s) used to build the release and nightly versions?

Ian

Hi PB,

Thanks for the explanation - this is really not a big issue - and I wouldn't want you to waste time on something so minor.

Ian

Ok I setup using this method on Win 7, it seems to compile actual firmwares just fine, but whenever I tell it to do make TAGET=emu_devo8 WINDOWS=1 it just gives me a full devo 8 output and no emu_devo8.exe, no errors either.

Is this just a typo here or have you missed an "R" in TARGET? If so, devo8 is the standard if no other is given.

Oh no I am typing it in right, it even compiles the emu stuff, just never produces emu_devo8.exe

WTF, I just tried to re-compile it and it worked, go figure.

Hello,
I set up a MinGW DeviationTX build environment on a Windows 7 machine exactly as described on PB's BitBucket page, I can successfully build for individual TX's but when I try "make release clean" I get the following error:

target/common/emu/fltk.cpp:28:19: fatal error: FL/Fl.H: No such file or directory
#include <FL/Fl.H>
^
compilation terminated.

I see that directory\file exists at 'C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Owner\src\fltk-1.3.0\' but I can't figure out how to make the compiler look there, any help would be appreciated.

you need to download, build and install fltk first.

richardclli wrote: you need to download, build and install fltk first.

I did - as I said I followed PB's instructions exactly per his BitBucket page.

Hi guys, I decided to put my big boy britches on today and learn how to build, not only to be able to build devo but to get a start learning cause of a need to build other project's stuff too... Quick note, tho I'm quite familiar with building arduino, Atmel and PIC code (C++ and PIC assembly) I do so in their respective IDE's, this is the first time since high school (12 years ago now) that I've needed to use CMD for anything other than AVRDUDE and ssh'ing into my RasPi's that dont have monitors (and back then all I really used it for was basic navigation and telnet). As such I'm definitely a totally green n00b here....

Running win 8 (in the vista-like desktop) 64b
started out downloading MinGW and TourtoiseHg, got those installed. Cloned the official repo and just for s'&g's tried to make and I got "Error 1 and Error 2"

A few minutes of research here and I found I needed something else called fltk. I followed PB's link to get that, I typed the next commend in his how-to " Untar fltk: tar -xzf c/users/dan/downloads" (yes that's there the file I just downloaded is lol) and I get "sh: Untar:command not found"

Again I am a total noob at this so please answer in the most simple terms possible what I need to do next. I assume I havent actually gotten that last file (fltk or whatever that is) installed and that's why it's an unknown command.
Also note I opened MinGW DeviationTX home and I notice a few libraries have red X's next to them, is this a related issue or something else I haven't ran into yet?

Thanks!
Dan