success: compile dosemu
Hi all,
I was trying to find a suitable dos-emulator that had straightforward parallel port access. dosbox's configuration in that regard has eluded me thus far... :( So I got the source for dosemu and tried building and installing it, no dice. I search LQ for dosemu and found an unresolved thread in my beloved slacker forum, then found a solution and thought I'd share. (a bit of a pissing contest brewing in the previous thread so I decided not to continue it) Summary of problem: during install dosemu make doesnt find a font installing file: /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf dosemu uses the file to install fonts (I think). Anyway the fix was easy enough, just run make install thus: Code:
PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin/:$PATH make DESTDIR=/tmp/dosemu install <clearly the DESTDIR is a matter of preference> now if I can just get me damn parport working.. :D |
Hi,
Does your requirment for a simple parallel port access have anything to do with micro-controller programming. John |
yes...
i have an econorom3 that is just a B*TCH to run under linux, the -current software for it is win32, but requires this fancy driverx.sys crap to get to the parallel port.. on top of that I dont even have a real parallel port, I have a pcmcia parallel port... but I _just_ got it to work! i have another thread here detailing my trials & tribulations i'll post my solution for this ER3 mess there. |
Hi,
Thought so. Anyone interested in gEDA is also interested in micro-controller programming. This is what I do on Slackware and about all I use a computer for. Since Slackware 11 I have given up with DOS and use the avr suite. Never had much luck on Slackware 10 but works great on 11. John |
how did you get avr suit running? I thought it was exclusively winblows...
I have the altium/tasking 8051, zilog dynamic-c, and a small PIC asm. only thing I haven;t tried yet is to install mplab. i've also got this cheapo USB programmer (TOP2004) that is as yet untested.. I would love to hear how you got avr suite running (i thought it was winblows only?) I tried installing that in wine but always gets errors. I even have an old version (from Joe Pardue's book) that I tried too and it didn't work either, just extracts to somehwere and then its gone... did you compile it yourself or something? I havent tried that lately though as I'm not using any atmel in prj-current. |
Hi,
Start here and follow all links:- http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/ I can recomend this to anyone interested in starting with micro-controller programming. All pure Linux command line. No gui X required. John |
thats awesome.. just bookmarked it!
unfortunately it'll have to wait until I can park my current project (inherited this tasking headache from previous development) will try and build the toolchain once my evenings are freed up again. |
Hi,
In another of your posts I mentioned vaguely that I would like to make my own Slackware installation packages. It is for this. I figure it out this way. If I could make Slackware tgz packages then I could use those to install the toolchain on an old computer with a minimal Slackware installation. Perhaps only the a series. Then I could dedicate this to microcontroller programming. Please give this some consideration as you install the tool chain. John |
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