[Tinyos-help] TinyOS on MacOSX (Intel)

[August Joki]

There is an installation page on the Tinyos Wiki for getting the telos
platform working on Mac OS X.

http://cents.cs.berkeley.edu/tinywiki/index.php/Tmote_Macintosh_install

-August

On 5/3/06, Vinayak Naik <naik at cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Prof Welsh,
>
> It is nice to see that you are getting encouraging results in porting
> TinyOS to Mac OS X :-) I have tried to do it multiple times in the
> past. I also followed existing postings by the people that were
> successful in doing so. But I couldn't do a successful port. May be
> it's because of my lack of knowledge of TinyOS dependencies, or Mac OS
> portability issues, or both.
>
> I know that there many other folks like me. If you could kindly post
> your experiences, that would be great! I will give it an another try
> :-)
>
> Thanks and good luck,
>
> - Vinayak
>
> On 5/3/06, Matt Welsh <mdw at eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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