Cannot make firmware

Bluescreen2001

Hi,

I am interested in basic-enginge and want to try it on PC to get an impression of it.
But I cannot get a "make hosted" environment.

I have to say, I am a Windows child and a Linux Noob, so please don't blame me for making Linix mistakes here.
BTW: thats one point why I am interested in Basic-Engine. All that full bloated OS'es like Windows and Linux prevent me from programming on these platforms. So all my projects are for mikrocontrollers. :-)

So, what did I to get Basic-Engine running.
First I installed LUbuntu on a virtual machine on my Windows 10 machine.
Then installed cifs-utils to mount my Windows \entwickl directory to /entwickl where I put the cloned basic-engine source tree.

Then installed missing make and gcc (unbelievable that it is not included in standard LUbuntu image)

Then I went to my /entwickl/basicengine-firmware directory and type "make hosted"
It loads tons of stuff without error but then this:
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/entwickl/basicengine-firmware“ wird betreten g++ -DARDUINO -DESP8266 -DESP8266_NOWIFI -DHOSTED -DF_CPU=160000000 -O2 -g -Ihosted -Iarduino_compat -Ittbasic -Ilibraries/TTVoutfonts -Ilibraries/TTBAS_LIB -Ilibraries/TKeyboard/src -Ilibraries/ESP8266SAM/src -Ilibraries/azip -Ilibraries/lua -Wall -Wno-unused -fpermissive -std=c++11 -c -o libraries/lua/lapi.o libraries/lua/lapi.cpp In file included from hosted/time.h:1:0, from hosted/time.h:1, from hosted/time.h:1, from hosted/time.h:1, [... repeated a hundred times ...] from hosted/time.h:1, from hosted/time.h:1, from hosted/time.h:1, from /usr/include/pthread.h:24, from /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/c++/7/bits/gthr-default.h:35, from /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/c++/7/bits/gthr.h:148, from /usr/include/c++/7/ext/atomicity.h:35, from /usr/include/c++/7/memory:73, from hosted/Arduino.h:121, from libraries/TTBAS_LIB/sdfiles.h:15, from libraries/lua/../../ttbasic/basic.h:8, from libraries/lua/luaconf.h:13, from libraries/lua/lua.h:16, from libraries/lua/lapi.cpp:17: hosted/time.h:1:18: error: #include nested too deeply #include <time.h> ^ In file included from libraries/lua/../../ttbasic/basic.h:13:0, from libraries/lua/luaconf.h:13, from libraries/lua/lua.h:16, from libraries/lua/lapi.cpp:17: libraries/lua/../../ttbasic/variable.h:31:10: fatal error: kwenum.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden #include "kwenum.h" ^~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. <eingebaut>: recipe for target 'libraries/lua/lapi.o' failed make[1]: *** [libraries/lua/lapi.o] Error 1 make[1]: Verzeichnis „/entwickl/basicengine-firmware“ wird verlassen Makefile:32: recipe for target 'hosted' failed make: *** [hosted] Error 2
Looks there is something wrong with time.h, maybe an include loop?

Then I tried to build a native firmware:

`
root@ubuntuVM:/entwickl/basicengine-firmware# make native
bash ttbasic/scripts/installpackages.sh
bash ttbasic/scripts/getlibs.sh
Klone nach 'Time' ...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 221 (delta 2), reused 5 (delta 2), pack-reused 214
Empfange Objekte: 100% (221/221), 73.12 KiB | 613.00 KiB/s, Fertig.
Löse Unterschiede auf: 100% (89/89), Fertig.
bash ttbasic/scripts/getesp8266.sh
--2019-09-23 18:01:59-- https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.8.5-linuxi686.tar.xz
Auflösen des Hostnamens downloads.arduino.cc (downloads.arduino.cc) … 104.20.191.47, 104.20.190.47, 2606:4700:10::6814:bf2f, ...
Verbindungsaufbau zu downloads.arduino.cc (downloads.arduino.cc)|104.20.191.47|:443 … verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 404 Not Found
2019-09-23 18:02:00 FEHLER 404: Not Found.

Makefile:39: recipe for target 'downloads_esp8266' failed
make: *** [downloads_esp8266] Error 8
`

It seems it cannot get the Arduino tools.

What can I do?
Hope you can help.

Thorsten
www.trektech.de

konimaru

time.h: Thats's odd. Under hosted there is only a Time.h. I'd suggest keeping the source initially inside the VM and then try again. I'm currently running debian10 in VMWare with win8 as a host. No issues whatsoever (source is inside the VM as well). If that turns out to be working we can figure out the win10 issue.

getesp8266.sh: I believe the issue here is that the version is currently established like this:
uname -m|sed -e s,aarch64,arm, -e s,x86_64,64,
I'm not sure what the required mapping for i686 is but you could try this:
uname -m|sed -e s,aarch64,arm, -e s,x86_64,64, -e s,i686,32,
HTH

Bluescreen2001

Hi konimaru

great hints. It works now.
I first cloned the source directly on the Linux VM. That solved the issue with that time.h include. I think one problem was the link from ttbasic.cpp -> ../ttbasic/ttbasic.ino which was destroyed by windows filesystem.

But the issue with
libraries/lua/../../ttbasic/variable.h:31:10: fatal error: kwenum.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
#include "kwenum.h"
keeps.

Then I tried make native again, without your changes to getesp8266.sh. Does not work, as espected. Indeed uname -m gives i686, so changed getesp8266.sh as you said. It works, downloaded the whole Arduino environment and compiled everything. Some warnings here and there, but no errors.

Then again make hosted and voila, compiled without error. Started the created basic executable and got a nice basic engine window, but without the startup beep. So I think there is no sound yet. But that's ok for testing.

Thank you very much for your help!

Thorsten

bitartrate

I am glad to find when I got to the bottom of the thread that you got it working. The hosted emulator does not have the startup beep. Be sure to put 1mgm.sf2 in the /vfs/sd folder. Today's version .523 of the emulator's sound is working.

Bluescreen2001

Ok. I didn't realize that sd subdirectory in vfs. So it didn't find the sound font. Now there is sound. But only the wavetable sound. The beep doesn't work. But who needs beep. :-)

bitartrate

Bluescreen2001 I'm sorry at first glance I thought you where saying you didn't find the sf file.

bitartrate

Now that you mention it I am not 100% sure the emulator needs the .sf2 file but here is the link https://github.com/uli/basicengine-demos
When you get your hardware BASIC Engine going I highly encourage you to work with the BEEP command. It is great!

uli

The "hosted" build primarily serves to test an approximation of the ESP8266 firmware and is therefore not very user-friendly. I would recommend using the all-new SDL port if you want to do productive things on a PC.
Be aware, though, that it's literally from last week, so it is likely to contain a number of issues.