Difference between revisions of "Installing TinyOS-2.x on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)"

Revision as of 19:03, 1 April 2010

Install NesC, the AVR GCC compiler and the MSP GCC compiler by following the instructions at the "Unofficial MacPorts for TinyOS" page.

Install gcc44 from MacPorts and softlink /opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.4 to gcc, and /opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.4 to g++, in the directory /usr/bin.

 Note: gcc43 works too.

 Note: the apple-gcc* compiler does not work because it will complain that "-c" is not a valid option to the preprocessor.

For simulations that involve opening a lot of files, e.g. simulations involving Flash memories, in the shell, type "ulimit -n <number>" where <number> is a high-enough value.

If Java complains about not finding the JNI libraries (getenv, toscomm), try running it using sudo.

If you encounter the error can't open config file "/etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf", either softlink /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf to /etc/avrdude/avrdude/conf, or put the following code in the file $TOSROOT/support/make/avr/avr.rules after the line AVRDUDE_CONF ?= /etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf:

 ifeq ($(findstring Darwin, $(shell uname)), Darwin)
   AVRDUDE_CONF := /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf
 endif

For more troubleshooting, some of the tips here written for Tiger maybe applicable.

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 * If Java complains about not finding the JNI libraries (getenv, toscomm), try running it using sudo.
+* If you encounter the error <tt>can't open config file "/etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf"</tt>, either softlink <tt>/opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf</tt> to <tt>/etc/avrdude/avrdude/conf</tt>, or put the following code in the file <tt>$TOSROOT/support/make/avr/avr.rules</tt> after the line <tt>AVRDUDE_CONF ?= /etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf</tt>:
+  ifeq ($(findstring Darwin, $(shell uname)), Darwin)
+    AVRDUDE_CONF := /opt/local/etc/avrdude.conf
+  endif
 * For more troubleshooting, some of the [http://www.mobilab.unina.it/TinyOSMAC.htm tips here written for Tiger] maybe applicable.
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