| Peabody <waybackNO584SPAM44@yahoo.com>: Jul 03 08:37AM -0500 The basic question is whether a total newb could successfully carry out a compile using VS and something called "Boost" without undertaking a new career. I mess around with TI's MSP430 controllers, and it has been my idea to modify TI's BSL flashing software to allow for the use of generic USB-to-Serial adapters such as the FT232, CP2102 and CH340G as the hardware interface. I thought that since TI makes the source code available, that should be doable. I was able to get that done for BSLDEMO2 which is used with the older F2xx, F4xx and G2xx parts. The code is in C, has no dependencies, and I was able to compile it with LCC-Win32. But of course you don't really need to know anything about compilers with LCC - it even creates something called the "Make" file for you. But then I looked at BSL-Scripter, which is used with all the newer MSP43x parts. It's written in C++ for VS, with dependencies I know nothing about, including Boost, and apparently was compiled by TI with VS 2013. This was clearly beyond me, but I was bailed out by a guy who saw my posts about this on the Energia forum, and who did the recompile and posted it on Github. He fixed my suggested code changes, and made other changes so the compile could be done with VS Community 2017 in case anyone else wanted to make further changes. And as it turns out, I do need to make another change. But I don't have his email, and he hasn't been back to Energia, and I don't think there is any way to reach someone on Github. Here's his repo: https://github.com/drcrane/bslscripter-vs2017 When I look at the readme there, I see almost nothing that I understand. I know what code changes to make, but the roadblock is the compile process. As a practical matter, is it feasible for someone who knows nothing about this process, has no experience with VS, or Boost, to successfully recompile this software without weeks of study? And could I confirm success because my resulting .exe (before the new changes) would be byte-for-byte identical to drcrane's release version? Alternatively, if I found someone who already has VS Community 2017 installed, and already has Boost compiled, would it be a reasonable thing to ask him to download the source and compile it? I mean, is this a 10-minute process, or a totally unreasonable request? I would appreciate thoughts or suggestions about how to proceed. I should also say that I and others have suggested to TI that they need to make these changes to their official versions of BSLDEMO2 and BSL-Scripter, which of course would be signed by TI, but there's no indication they are considering doing that. |
| Peabody <waybackNO584SPAM44@yahoo.com>: Jul 03 10:31AM -0500 I may have found drcrane's email address, so perhaps I may be spared again by him. But I would still like to know whether this is something it would make sense for me to try. |
| Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl>: Jul 03 06:04PM +0200 Personaly I don't trust M$ nor Bost and avoid them both. |
| Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk>: Jul 03 05:49PM +0100 On 03/07/2019 17:04, Szyk Cech wrote: > Personaly I don't trust M$ nor Bost and avoid them both. neoGFX is dependent on Boost Szyk! /Flibble -- "Snakes didn't evolve, instead talking snakes with legs changed into snakes." - Rick C. Hodgin "You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway." – Ricky Gervais "I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens." – Ricky Gervais "Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God," Bryne asked on his show The Meaning of Life. "What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?" "I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied. "How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil." "Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say." |
| Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com>: Jul 03 02:19AM +0100 On 02/07/2019 23:50, G G wrote: > mindset when i read it i guess. comedies like : amazon: corner gas, > youtube: little mosque on the prairie , > bbc: yes minister and yes prime minister. ..and in case you didn't recognise where Ben's strange northern accent came from, you could check out e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k Regards Mike. |
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