propgcc now in the Parallax github

David Betz · 2015-03-14 10:39

Several people have noted that Google Code will be shutting down shortly. In preparation for that, I've migrated the propgcc repository from Google Code to the Parallax github account.

https://github.com/parallaxinc/propgcc

I'd like to consider the Google Code propgcc repository to be read-only at this point but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.

Thanks to SwimDude0614:

Here are 6 useful links. These will always download the latest version of each artifact and work with wget

GCC4
x86-64 Linux
RPi
Win32

GCC5
x86-64 Linux
RPi
Win32

DavidZemon · 2015-03-14 11:04

Thanks!

For anyone curious, I will soon be attempting to throw propgcc into a continuous integration server (TeamCity). I can't promise it will be successful, but this seemed like an appropriate place to mention it. If/when I get propgcc building successfully, we should have up-to-date versions of windows, linux and raspberry pi builds.

David Betz · 2015-03-14 11:36

Are you suggesting that this will replace the github repository or is this something that pulls from github to do its builds?

DavidZemon · 2015-03-14 11:37

It will monitor github for changes and build after every commit

the triggers are highly configurable. i have propware's set for a "sleep period" of 5 minutes. so you have 5 minutes to make a second, related commit before the build actually kicks off

David Betz · 2015-03-14 11:38

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

It will monitor github for changes and build after every commit

Sounds very useful.

DavidZemon · 2015-03-14 11:39

that's the goal! i'm tired of not having up-to-date versions of propgcc available.

David Betz · 2015-03-14 11:45

When I migrated propgcc from Google Code to github we lost the wiki material. Does anyone know how to migrate the wiki material? Github seems to have a wiki feature.

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) · 2015-03-14 12:36

You can also migrate wikis using the above procedure because wikis are simply Git repositories that follow the special naming convention [repo-name].wiki.git. Visit http(s)://[enterprise-hostname]/[owner]/[repo-name]/wiki to create your wiki repository before you try pushing to it.

From Here:
https://help.github.com/enterprise/2.0/admin/articles/moving-a-repository-from-github-com-to-github-enterprise/

David Betz · 2015-03-14 13:01

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) wrote: »

https://help.github.com/enterprise/2.0/admin/articles/moving-a-repository-from-github-com-to-github-enterprise/

From Here:
You can also migrate wikis using the above procedure because wikis are simply Git repositories that follow the special naming convention [repo-name].wiki.git. Visit http(s)://[enterprise-hostname]/[owner]/[repo-name]/wiki to create your wiki repository before you try pushing to it.

Thanks Bob!

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) · 2015-03-14 15:06

Re:Thanks Bob!

Anytime. I'll C you over in the SimpleIDE threads any day now. It's time for me to try it

David Betz · 2015-03-14 15:10

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) wrote: »

Re:Thanks Bob!

Anytime. I'll C you over in the SimpleIDE threads any day now. It's time for me to try it

SimpleIDE? What's that? Oh yeah, that's the GUI app people use when they want to program using PropGCC. I keep forgetting. :-)

DavidZemon · 2015-03-15 10:51

hey david, can I make a small suggestion? change the name of readme.txt to readme.md. I think (hope) that will help github decide to use the correct readme on the front page of the repository instead of readme.cross

David Betz · 2015-03-15 12:50

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

hey david, can I make a small suggestion? change the name of readme.txt to readme.md. I think (hope) that will help github decide to use the correct readme on the front page of the repository instead of readme.cross

Done! Thanks for the suggestion.

DavidZemon · 2015-03-15 19:22

Well, I'm getting closer to building propgcc on the server. I've started a pull request with the goal of making propgcc capable of building/installing to a directory other than /opt/parallax. I got pretty far, but finally died with an error about not being able to find openspin

pull request: https://github.com/dbetz/propgcc/pull/72

David Betz · 2015-03-16 04:12

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

Well, I'm getting closer to building propgcc on the server. I've started a pull request with the goal of making propgcc capable of building/installing to a directory other than /opt/parallax. I got pretty far, but finally died with an error about not being able to find openspin

pull request: https://github.com/dbetz/propgcc/pull/72

You can already do that by defining PREFIX:

PREFIX=/my/path make

DavidZemon · 2015-03-16 06:36

David Betz wrote: »
You can already do that by defining PREFIX:
PREFIX=/my/path make

It wouldn't have worked for cross-compilation, and I found files where /opt/parallax was hardcoded instead of using the PREFIX environment variable (lib/build.sh and loader/build.sh for instance).

David Betz · 2015-03-16 06:45

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

It wouldn't have worked for cross-compilation, and I found files where /opt/parallax was hardcoded instead of using the PREFIX environment variable (lib/build.sh and loader/build.sh for instance).

I think there is also a CROSS_PREFIX variable. If you find places where /opt/parallax is hardcoded, please let me know. They should be fixed. Also, I'm working on a new repository called propeller-gcc that only includes gcc, binutils, lib, and propeller-load as submodules so they can live in their own separate repositories. It isn't ready for prime time yet though. It includes Eric's new version of gcc and binutils that match the current open source revisions.

DavidZemon · 2015-03-16 06:51

David Betz wrote: »

I think there is also a CROSS_PREFIX variable. If you find places where /opt/parallax is hardcoded, please let me know. They should be fixed.

they're in the pull request linked above.

David Betz wrote: »

Also, I'm working on a new repository called propeller-gcc that only includes gcc, binutils, lib, and propeller-load as submodules so they can live in their own separate repositories. It isn't ready for prime time yet though. It includes Eric's new version of gcc and binutils that match the current open source revisions.

great! i have lots of disk space on the server and 16 cores @ 2.6 GHz, so bring it on! we'll have binaries of everything

David Betz · 2015-03-16 07:02

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

they're in the pull request linked above.

Thanks! I've merged your changes.

dgately · 2015-03-16 10:12

David Betz wrote: »

When I migrated propgcc from Google Code to github we lost the wiki material. Does anyone know how to migrate the wiki material? Github seems to have a wiki feature.

David,

This may help with the propgcc Wiki: https://github.com/ArcBees/arcbees-tools/tree/master/googlecode_wiki_to_github_markdown

dgately

DavidZemon · 2015-03-16 15:40

It looks like openspin is being referenced as if it were already on the PATH in the loader's makefile. Can you confirm that David? Specifically, I'm looking at line 34 where it's defined and 215 where it's used
https://github.com/dbetz/propgcc/blob/master/loader/Makefile
If that's the case, I'll create another pull request that changes line 215 to use ${TARGET}/bin/${SPINCMP} instead of ${SPINCMP}

David Betz · 2015-03-16 19:05

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

It looks like openspin is being referenced as if it were already on the PATH in the loader's makefile. Can you confirm that David? Specifically, I'm looking at line 34 where it's defined and 215 where it's used
https://github.com/dbetz/propgcc/blob/master/loader/Makefile
If that's the case, I'll create another pull request that changes line 215 to use ${TARGET}/bin/${SPINCMP} instead of ${SPINCMP}

The binary for openspin is included in the release directory in propgcc. I gets copied to /opt/parallax/bin before it is used by the makefile. In fact, the makefile probably shouldn't use it from the current path at all. It should probably always use it from $PREFIX/bin in case there is an old copy of openspin in the path.

DavidZemon · 2015-03-16 20:08

GREAT NEWS! The first build off the assembly line is available for download.

http://david.zemon.name/downloads/propgcc-linux-64.tar.gz

Still working on getting RPi builds succeeding.

Windows build has to wait til tomorrow. Ran of disk space tonight

I do not yet know how I'll be building 32-bit linux distros

msrobots · 2015-03-16 20:34

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

...great! i have lots of disk space on the server and 16 cores @ 2.6 GHz, so bring it on! we'll have binaries of everything

Nice setup for TeamCity! Glad you like it.

Enjoy!

Mike

DavidZemon · 2015-03-16 20:43

Indeed! This disk space is only checked and reallocated once a day though

so, now I have to wait until tomorrow to continue.

DavidZemon · 2015-03-17 11:13

Woohoo! We have windows builds now

http://david.zemon.name/downloads/propgcc-win-32.zip

David Betz · 2015-03-17 18:16

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

GREAT NEWS! The first build off the assembly line is available for download.

http://david.zemon.name/downloads/propgcc-linux-64.tar.gz

Still working on getting RPi builds succeeding.

Windows build has to wait til tomorrow. Ran of disk space tonight

I do not yet know how I'll be building 32-bit linux distros

This is truly great news! Congratulations!!
Are you building the default branch or release_1_0 or both?

DavidZemon · 2015-03-17 18:20

David Betz wrote: »

This is truly great news! Congratulations!!
Are you building the default branch or release_1_0 or both?

At the moment, default (which I assume means master really). release_1_0 is on my mental to-do list, but I want to get rpi building first.

Still worried about 32-bit linux though

David Betz · 2015-03-17 18:24

SwimDude0614 wrote: »

At the moment, default (which I assume means master really). release_1_0 is on my mental to-do list, but I want to get rpi building first.

Still worried about 32-bit linux though

Ah, yes. It's "master" now not "default". Thanks for the correction. I still need to fix the version number generation. I think the problem is that I don't have any tags defined in the repository yet. I'm currently working on the new propeller-gcc repository though. It has the advantage that it gets the compiler from Eric's new version of GCC as well as binutils and lib. It also pulls Eric's most recent version of spin2cpp as well as Roy's most recent version of openspin. It's still buggy though. :-(

DavidZemon · 2015-03-17 18:28

David Betz wrote: »

Ah, yes. It's "master" now not "default". Thanks for the correction. I still need to fix the version number generation. I think the problem is that I don't have any tags defined in the repository yet. I'm currently working on the new propeller-gcc repository though. It has the advantage that it gets the compiler from Eric's new version of GCC as well as binutils and lib. It also pulls Eric's most recent version of spin2cpp as well as Roy's most recent version of openspin. It's still buggy though. :-(

I eagerly await the new version

Hoping to get rpi live soon. Will update soon as it is

DavidZemon · 2015-03-17 19:56

Ugh. I'm stumped! I keep hitting this error with the rpi build:

Configuring ncurses
/bin/sh: 1: /var/www/vhosts/david.zemon.name/propgcc-build/src/ncurses/configure: not found
make: *** [/var/www/vhosts/david.zemon.name/propgcc-build/src/../build-rpi/ncurses/ncurses-configured] Error 127

I don't get it. It's looking for a directory called ncurses in the source files.... but there's definitely no ncurses directory in the repository. I thought maybe I just didn't have an environment variable set correctly, or was missing a dependency, but the Makefile doesn't show any obvious issues (referring to line 254: https://github.com/DavidZemon/propgcc/blob/master/Makefile#L254). The one odd thing I noticed was that the target "$(BUILD)/ncurses/ncurses-configured" depends on "$(BUILD)/ncurses/ncurses-created" which doesn't exist in that file. So... maybe ncurses-created is supposed to create the ncurses directory? Makes sense based on the name. Where's that target defined?

--edit--
grep just finished searching the source directory and found nothing

dzweb@zemon1204:~/propgcc-build/src$ grep ncurses-created ./* -r
./Makefile:$(BUILD)/ncurses/ncurses-configured: $(BUILD)/ncurses/ncurses-created
dzweb@zemon1204:~/propgcc-build/src$

propgcc now in the Parallax github

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