[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:
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>"This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.
>Re-installing the application may fix this problem".
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>The file cygwin1.dll is indeed on my maching, in C:\progs\cygwin\bin. Is
>this some sort of path or environment variable problem?
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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".
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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?
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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.
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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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