From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,d513bd13029c7dcd X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!l34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: MRE Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1f88b97b-a219-4d2e-8480-cd486811a89c@l34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> References: <32f88ab9-8224-40f2-af77-eef7170b667d@k15g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.182.213.68 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246110489 1982 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2009 13:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.182.213.68; posting-account=9oKlagoAAAArpDKc-z70x-nwdNs7Rw_P User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6668 Date: 2009-06-27T06:48:09-07:00 List-Id: On 24 Jun., 09:00, Matteo Bordin wrote: > On Jun 24, 5:15=A0am, Jeffrey Creem wrote: > > > tmo...@acm.org wrote: > > >> GNAT GPL for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT > > > >>http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/mindstorms/ > > > =A0 Last Thursday I registered so I could download this. =A0Haven't r= eceived > > > a "here's your code" email yet. =A0Are they just slow? > > > Not normally. Sounds like it got caught in the spam blocker someplace. > > My son signed up on Friday I think and had the activation email in a fe= w > > minutes. > > I agree. Let us know if you do not receive the confirmation mail. > > > > > I was pretty excited to get him going on this but it is still pretty ra= w > > and not quite ready for prime time. Still I think it is good to get it > > out there early. > > > Install process is a bit confusing and I don't quite understand all of > > the actual prerequisites. The direct link to on file in nxtOSEK makes > > you think that is all you need (perhaps it is) but nxtOSEK itself has a > > rather a number of prerequisites that you may or may not also need. > > The documentation talks about going to the examples directory and doing > > a make but the AdaCore Mindstorms install (while somewhat complete in > > that it bundles GPS and the compiler in one installer) does not include > > make. > > I suggest to have a look at the root README file you see in the > download page. > It contains all required information. > > > I'd really be interested in hearing if anyone gets this going who has > > not already spent a lot of time with nxtOSEK. Looks like a good first > > effort to build on. Hopefully the effort is not wasted because a new > > mindstorms is coming out in the fall. It would be a shame if the new > > mindstorms obsoleted all of this before it ever got working in a > > semi-turnkey manner. > > We tested it with interns (not the one who contributed to the > release ;-) ) and > the installation process, while not completely automated, seemed > reasonable. I managed to get something to compile, however I wind up with a somewhat cryptic (for me at least) error message, that ld causes an error in Win XP. I'll tinker some more and get back to you. Cheers Marc