FreeEMS_Loader

[Fred]

No, I assure you, I really like it. Not even my mother's bad packaging job could prevent me from enjoying it.

Here are a couple more for good measure.

Fred.

[Bangbug]

ignominious bump (he's sort of twiddling his fingers)

[Fred]

:-(

[SleepyKeys]

Save this file in the same dir that you saved the loader's exe file to.

http://powerefi.com/files/libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

No dude, no good. Can you please test until you have a working setup on winblows and post when you do, preferably soon for Bangbug so he can progress. Chasing the dependencies one by one like this is just a complete waste of everyone's time. If you insist on programming by coincidence, re deps, then please do it yourself so Bangbug and I don't have to. Screeny attached. Do not upload this file, though. Instead figure out the correct approach, and upload something that you know will work.

loaderFailsAgain.png

If he needs it now then thats what he gets.

Maybe this week, i will have auto cross tools working.

If you take the "now, now, now" factor away, then I can work on a correct approach.

-sean

If he needs it NOW THEN THATS WHAT HE GETS.

IM NOT MADE OF TIME AND THIS IS NOT THE ONLY THING I DO IN LIFE.

MAYBE THIS WEEK, I WILL HAVE AUTO CROSS TOOLS WORKING.

If you take the "now, now, now" factor away, then I can work on a correct approach.

[SleepyKeys]

On a different note, Bangbug from the PM you sent me I thought this was working for you. Aparently that was not the case, sorry. Mike and Fred just tested something that seems to work fine on Win

[Fred]

Sean, temper temper. Also, bs bs. I edited your post, don't pull that shit again.

http://www.mikesshop.net/EMStudio/FreeEMS-Loader.zip

(15:47:20) Fred: seank-efi: Unable to open COM3
(15:47:23) Fred: no further detail
(15:47:32) Fred: please patch so that it tells me what is wrong so I can tell you
(15:48:03) seank-efi left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 245 seconds).
(15:48:08) Fred: :-p

Banger, perhaps you'll have better luck than me! Try it!

Fred.

[SleepyKeys]

The serialLib have never been used or tested on Windows, I suspect it is something simple. Stand by...

[Fred]

How do we know that Mike is/was building from your dev branch? I'd assume master.

[SleepyKeys]

I asked him if he included the async lib, he said yes so that *should mean he built my dev branch. Confirmation would be nice.

Honestly the Loader is still very alphaish because I'm torn into working on so many different things.

About 9 months ago, I started working on a serial library to *simulate some of the low level serial port functions that appeared to be broken/inconsistant with some serial chipsets. I spent a few weeks on it and seem to have made good progress. Since then it has been integrated into the Loaders Dev branch and tested on Linux. That is it though! I have not had time to test on win/mac at all yet.

One of the things that has been really bugging me for some time is cross-tools building for the big three platforms. More specifically the complete lack of. I dred writing software when I think to myself, man what a chore it will be to have to rebuild for all these platforms. I'm not speaking of just the Loader either, binutils is the same *headache. A couple weeks ago I finally made the decision to make *auto cross-building a priority, so I could focus on features/stability etc.


I have managed to put alot of things behind me, so expect Loader goodness soon !

Bangbug:
If you want to help test and compile code on Windows, let me know I can ammend the Windows section of the readme file, to make it complete.

[Fred]

Rubbery!

git hash in the title bar from git-describe --always --dirty=-DEV would be even better.

It's not possible to cross compile for Mac OS X, but that's OK. I don't mind doing the build for that from a tag when the time is right. I might even test it before then, but only once I get everything closed so crashes don't sting.

How about instead of offering to fix the readme, you just do it immediately and save some typing. You could even convert to .md while you're at it and make it way more readable on github.

Re the error complaint, you need to differentiate your errors as much as humanly possible. Right now it gives the same thing for a non existant com port and a real one with some issue. Not good enough, really.

Fred.