I’m getting the toolchain going on Linux, and I’ve found a few bugs in the summon-arm-toolchain code.
More specifically, some libraries need to be manually installed. In Fedora, they are (at a minimum):
gcc, c++, xforms, gmp, mpfr, mpc, libmpc2, termcap, ncurses, in their full (i.e. *-devel ) forms.
Note especially that mpc is in flux right now; the most recent version of mpc requires a version of
mpfr that is not yet in the standard Fedora repositories, so I had to drop back to mpc 8.2 (installed
from the mpc download site). At that point, you can give ./summon-arm-toolchain a try and see
where it complains.
Note also that I had to comment out the download of newlib via ftp from sources.redhat.com and
install it manually as ftp was broken on that file but http worked. Bizarre, I know.
So, what’s in SYS, and what’s in APP? Where should I start?
(also, I’m thinking that I want a UI that has only six dropdown tabs, one for each pushdown
switch on the 203 including the two under the rockers, and then the rockers always do the
same thing - left rocker scrolls down the options, right rocker selects a value for that option.
I’d say just four dropdowns, but that’s awfully limiting. Pushing a rocker always switches
to that dropdown tab. If no tab is down, the left rocker controls voltage scale, right rocker
controls timebase scale.
Or something like that. I’m still thinking. And wishing the DS203 had a touch screen.
- Bill