[Tinyos-help] Can't Blink with "make micaz sim"

[Philip Levis]

On Oct 7, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Sivan Toledo wrote:

>  I'm using tinyos-2.0.0beta2-3.cygwin.noarch.rpm which is what the  
> TinyOS installation page specifies. <http://www.tinyos.net/ 
> dist-2.0.0/tinyos/windows/tinyos-2.0.0beta2-3.cygwin.noarch.rpm>
>
>
> I don't think the problem is with the version of python. The  
> command that fails is
>
>
> g++ -shared -fPIC  build/micaz/pytossim.o build/micaz/sim.o build/ 
> micaz/tossim.o -lstdc++  -o _TOSSIMmodule.so
>
>
> The unresolved references are in pytossim.o, and they seem to refer  
> to some Python-related library (symbols like _PyString_FromString  
> and __imp__PyExc_NameError). I don't see on this command line the  
> library from which they should come. They are not in tossim.o (I  
> checked with nm).
>
>
> The instructions in the TOSSIM tutorial seem pretty similar to the  
> one in the first tutorial, it basically just say to run "make micaz  
> sim" in apps/Blink.


Hm. This is weird. -fPIC suggests that it thinks it's compiling for  
Linux, not Cygwin. The default sim.extra tries to figure out which OS  
you are with the OSTYPE environment variable. If it is "cygwin", it  
compiles for Cygwin, if "darwin" it compiles for Mac OSX, otherwise  
Linux.

What is this environment variable on your machine? Can you try

OSTYPE=cygwin make micaz sim

and see what happens?

The other possibility is that you don't have the Python development  
libraries. I had though that this was standard on most Cygwins,  
but... did you install the one linked on the TinyOS site?

Phil