[Tinyos-help] TinyOS on MacOSX (Intel)

[David Gay]

On 5/3/06, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On May 3, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Matt Welsh wrote:
> > 2) I am unable to compile the Java tools in net/tinyos because (you
> > guessed it!) there is no javax.comm for MacOS. Took a look at RXTX but
> > am unable to get RXTX-2.0 to compile; seems that RXTX-2.0 is a bit out
> > of date. RXTX-2.1 might work but uses the gnu.io namespace so is
> > probably
> > not compatible with the TinyOS tools.
> >
>
> 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).

Note that Cory did this for 1.x first, and it's found in
tinyos-1.x/beta/TOSComm. Following the directions there should give
you a working TOSComm for 1.x... (but do avoid checking in the changes
it will make to your Java tree ;-))

David Gay