[Tfug] Just starting - need help

[Brian Murphy]

Try starting with this page for hints:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc4.html

It has a section for gcc (3.2 which will be fine for the kernel build)
and also a section how to recompile the kernel.

Good luck,

Brian


Quoting Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com>:
> Well... that's what I thought...
>
> -- do you really want to hear this???
>
> I was supplied the source and a confirg file for the kernel -- a descendent
> of Fedora Core 4
> The stuff I got with didn't have a compiler.  Locally all I could get
> quickly was SuSE
> I loaded that onto an old PC, copied the tar file for the source and undid
> it.
> I read the Readme - did what it said - fournd the config file the
> manufacturer supplied
> started the make, and after some time it said Error -- mov doesn't use x
> many parameters--
> mov - an assembler thing - when dit it's syntax change?
> so I looked deepeer into the readme, and after it said make sure you have
> the latest stuff, it says gcc-2.95.3  -- my gcc is 4.whatever
> So I finally downloaded Fedora core 4 (which also has gcc 4)
> So I gound gcc-2.95.3 on the web, downloaded that and started to try to
> compile that -- more syntax errors -- I skipped the "make suyre you have
> latest binutls" and go past the syntax errors, but after about a screen or
> two of --linking -- it says something like libcobj folder empty-- and dies
> there -- for grins I tried the "make stage1" which was supposed to copy a
> bunch of stuff to a stage1 folder and then re-compile with the newly
> compiled cc -- but that didn't even start up..
>
> Anyway -- thank you for the Xlib info -- I will be needing that soon (I
> hope).  I did build something on Suse with QT, but copying that to the
> platform we're using failed.  I copied the QT libs, and got up to "buss
> error" --
> Because we want a small embedded type of thing, and performance, I was
> looking into Xlib, but got a real small feeling when looking at the
> documentation on the XFree86 site, way over my head, or I just didn't click
> on the right "examples" link.
>
> I was also looking into QT's Qtopia, which is supposed to use the same QT
> api, but bypass X and go right to the framebuffer.  But if  i can't get the
> kernel to compile, i may not want to go there - at least x is working on the
> stuff supplied by the vendor.
>
> we selected pc/104 for cost / size / seemed like the thing to do at the
> time.  I could go with a bigger cpu, throw in a hard drive, say heck with
> the cost, and hack out a solution in winders xp, but..... for now that's a
> fallback.
>
>
> -- well I hear my compiler -- dcel.c: In function 'start-struct'  error:
> argument 'code' doesn't match prototype --
>
> sounds like my code, but this is gnu !
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Bexley Hall
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:02 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Just starting - need help
>
>
> Hi,
>
> --- Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:
>
>> I need help!
>>
>> I'm new to Linux (about 2 weeks) and I NEED to learn
>> how to compile a
>> kernel, (start by compiling the compiler even!),
>> Draw a button on the
>> screen, get a mouse event and finally, make an
>> install image.  We are
>> building a chemistry instrument, and just starting
>> out in Linux, and I need to do the controls for the
>> thing.
>
> Can you spell "kitchen sink"?  :>
>
> Building a kernel should be relatively easy.
> In NetBSD it's:
>
> $ su
> # cd /usr/src/sys/arch/YOURMACHINEARCH/conf
> # vi <name_of_config_file>
>
> <make changes to config, as required>
>
> # config <nae_of_config_file>
> # cd ../../compile/<name_of_config_file>
> # make depend
> # make
> # make install
>
> I don't run Linux but it shouldn't be much more
> involved than this.
>
>
> As for drawing a button, do you want to draw it using
> raw X (Xlib)?  Or, with a particular toolkit?
> Are you interested in performance or ease of
> interface design/modification?  E.g., you might
> want to play with Tcl/tk instead of dealing with
> X itself.
>
> Or, any of a number of other skins that you can
> layer atop it (you might even look at Inferno if
> you want a clean, *portable* environment to code
> your application).
>
>> I think I can figure the stuff out eventually, but
>> we are working on a new
>> project that we want running by December - of this
>> year - and as I'm
>> getting older, learning this is getting slower!
>
> <grin>  Of course, how [un]realistic that may/may not
> be is a direct function of the complexity of the
> project you're undertaking!  :>
>
>> We got a pc/104 card - Intel x86 type of thing -
>
> You chose PC/104 for it's small form factor?  Or,
> were you looking for a particular set of peripherals?
> (or, are you planning on developing the peripherals
> to support your I/O's?)
>
>> from Octagon.  We were
>> supplied the source to the kernel, a bootable CD,
>> and that's about it.
>> They don't help with software other than, just go -
>> "find it on the web"....
>
> Ain't Open Source great!!  :>
>
>> Do you know of anyone who knows about this type of
>> stuff, who would be a
>> consultant ($) that could get me through the first
>> (and probably some more) hurdles?
>
> --don
>
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