[ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

["Andy Voelkel" <andy at bushtaxi dot com>]

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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