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 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-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!c9e1c1fe!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:15:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.181.45.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1245813301 71.181.45.230 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:15:01 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:15:01 EDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6584 X-Original-Bytes: 2665 Date: 2009-06-24T03:15:01+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >> GNAT GPL for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT >> >> http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/mindstorms/ > Last Thursday I registered so I could download this. Haven't received > a "here's your code" email yet. Are 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 few minutes. I was pretty excited to get him going on this but it is still pretty raw 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 fear that if you are using Vista you will be out of luck given the current limitations with the nxtOSEK USB driver...Or maybe not. there are several options for that OS but it is not really clear if you have to use the one that requires libUSB with the AdaCore stuff. 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.