Installing rtems on 32 bit windows host machine

[Alireza Banejad]

any thoughts?

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:00 AM Alireza Banejad <alibanejad1376 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> thanks again,
> this time I installed Cygwin and run the sb-check and returned that the
> environment is ok, but  when installing rtems with the source builder it
> results in an error, checking out the log file tells me the following:
> checking whether to use python... /usr/bin/python2
> checking for python... no
> configure: error: no usable python found at /usr/bin/python2
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:9705: configure-gdb] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/cygdrive/c/opt/rtems/rsb/rtems/build/arm-rtems6-gdb-6427605-i686-pc-cygwin-1/build'
> make: *** [Makefile:857: all] Error 2
> shell cmd failed: sh -ex
>  /cygdrive/c/opt/rtems/rsb/rtems/build/arm-rtems6-gdb-6427605-i686-pc-cygwin-1/do-build
> error: building arm-rtems6-gdb-6427605-i686-pc-cygwin-1
> i don't know why this happens even though python exists in this path?. I
> also have the python-devel and python3-devel packages installed
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:22 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>> Re-adding devel@ to keep things recorded.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 1:23 PM Alireza Banejad <alibanejad1376 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Joel,
>>> thank you for responding,
>>> so basically I installed the msys2 i686 and downloaded the packages and
>>> finally downloaded themingw-w64-i686-toolchain, after exporting the
>>> proper path of the compiler I ran the
>>> gcc -dumpmachine command, it returned i686-w64-mingw32 yet the sb-check
>>> of rsb wants a i686-w32-mingw32-gcc compiler.
>>>
>>
>> Chris Johns will hopefully jump in shortly.
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:42 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 1:05 PM Alireza Banejad <
>>>> alibanejad1376 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>> I was wondering whether I could install RTEMS on a 32-bit Windows 7
>>>>> host machine using either msys2 or Cygwin.
>>>>> I already tried installing it on msys2 i686 but when running sb-check
>>>>> it returns:
>>>>>
>>>>> error: exe: not found: (__cc)  i686-w32-mingw32-gccerror: exe: not found: (__cxx) i686-w32-mingw32-g++
>>>>>
>>>>> Environment is not correctly set up.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems there is no such compiler as i686-w32-mingw32-gcc to add in the first place.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Assuming you have installed the gcc package, what is the compiler
>>>> called?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think any of the core developers have seen Windows 7 especially
>>>> 32-bit in a while.
>>>>
>>>> The file that sets the expectations based on host is
>>>> source-builder/sb/windows.py. It may require some tinkering to match a
>>>> 32-bit environment.
>>>>
>>>> We'd love to have a patch to that file (don't break 64-bit) and, if
>>>> needed, documentation.
>>>>
>>>> --joel
>>>>
>>>>>
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