Difference between revisions of "Cygwin User Notes"
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This page is used to collect misc. user notes on using TinyOS under Cygwin. The organization is adhoc. Currently, topics are listed as sections. | This page is used to collect misc. user notes on using TinyOS under Cygwin. The organization is adhoc. Currently, topics are listed as sections. | ||
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| + | = MIB520 and Cygwin serial ports = | ||
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| + | In Cygwin the serial ports are accessed as <tt>/dev/com1</tt> through <tt>/dev/com16</tt> ''not'' as <tt>/dev/ttyS0</tt> as on Linux. The <tt>comX</tt> portion of the name corresponds exactly to the Windows port name. Thus, to program a Micaz using the Crossbow MIB520 programming board that enumerated as Windows ports COM13 and COM14 type: | ||
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| + | <tt>make micaz install mib520,/dev/com13</tt> | ||
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| + | Note that the <tt>/dev</tt> directory is not populated by Cygwin. This means that listing the <tt>/dev</tt> directory under Cygwin will not list the available serial ports. However, using the above syntax ''will'' allow access to the ports. | ||
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= Beware of <cr><lf> vs. <lf> line terminators = | = Beware of <cr><lf> vs. <lf> line terminators = | ||
Revision as of 11:06, 9 October 2008
This page is used to collect misc. user notes on using TinyOS under Cygwin. The organization is adhoc. Currently, topics are listed as sections.
MIB520 and Cygwin serial ports
In Cygwin the serial ports are accessed as /dev/com1 through /dev/com16 not as /dev/ttyS0 as on Linux. The comX portion of the name corresponds exactly to the Windows port name. Thus, to program a Micaz using the Crossbow MIB520 programming board that enumerated as Windows ports COM13 and COM14 type:
make micaz install mib520,/dev/com13
Note that the /dev directory is not populated by Cygwin. This means that listing the /dev directory under Cygwin will not list the available serial ports. However, using the above syntax will allow access to the ports.
Beware of <cr><lf> vs. <lf> line terminators
Some windows editors will use <cr><lf> instead of <lf> to terminate lines. Unix programs brought over under Cygwin can get confused by this. We have definitely seen this messing up environment settings.
Environment variables under Cygwin
Sometimes when using TinyOS under Cygwin there are problems with the environment variables being recognized. One proposed solution is to place the file /etc/profile.d/tinyos-2.x.sh. ie:
cat /etc/profile.d/tinyos-2.x.sh export MAKERULES=`cygpath -w $TOSROOT/support/make/Makerules` export MAKERULES="$MAKERULES:."
<Can someone verify that this works?>
