[Tinyos-help] TinyOS on MacOSX (Intel)

[Matt Welsh]

Quick update: 

I have checked in a small change to tools/src/sf/sfsource.c
that allows the C-based Serial Forwarder to work on MacOS.

Onto getting the Java tools to talk to it (possibly by excising
the dependency on javax.comm). Has anyone tried TOSComm on MacOS?

> I don't know a good answer to this. TinyOS 2.0 has thrown off RXTX/ 
> javax.comm because of all of the issues and uses its own serial  
> package (written by Cory Sharp). I haven't tried getting it working  
> on OS X, however, and it isn't backwards-compatible with 1.x (there  
> is a slightly different serial protocol).

OK, so this would be the TOSComm equivalent for Tinyos 2.x. 
Nice.

> > have a lean 'serial daemon' that interfaces to the serial port and  
> > could
> > be (ideally) readily ported across many platforms; then the Java tools
> > only need to understand how to talk to the daemon over a socket.
> 
> I agree, that would be a useful tool.

Indeed. Does the C-based SF work on TinyOS 2.x? 

Matt