SimpleIDE on Raspberry Pi

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• twm47099 Posts: 867

  2016-02-26 18:14 edited 2016-02-26 18:21

  When I installed SimpleIDE on my RPi 2 I had the problem where there were no boards listed in the dropdown menu and no programs would load because of that. The manual mentions (my manual page is 23) that the board types are in a file "boards.txt" in the propeller-gcc\propeller-load\ folder (under the SimpleIDE install folder. On my windows computer that subfolder is the "Program Files\SimpleIDE\" folder.
  
  When I checked in my RPi install folder I either could not find boards.txt or if it was there it was empty (sorry, it's been a while & I don't recall which).
  
  Well if it had been a Windows problem, I would have been able to fix it right away. However, I am just starting out with Linux and there was a lot of trial and error (how to create a new file, edit it, and save it where I wanted).
  
  Eventually, I was able to create the boards,txt file with the proper text in it. Below I've copied the contents of board.txt from one of my windows installs. It's what I also used with the RPi. I think that putting the completed boards.txt into propeller-load and restarting SimpleIDE was all I needed to do.??? (again sorry I don't completely remember.)
  
  The cfg flies for the boards are also in the propeller-load folder.
  
  @parallax -- Please check the install files/instruction for SimpleIDE on the RPi and have the correct boards.txt install.
  
  Hope this helps.
  Tom
  
  

  #
  # This is a board selection file.
  # To enable a board, all that's needed is the
  # board cfg filename somewhere in the text here
  # 
  activityboard.cfg      # this is the Propeller Activity board type
  eeprom.cfg             # this is the default 64KB EEPROM board type
  rcfast.cfg             # the generic rcfast clock setting
  rcslow.cfg             # the generic rcslow clock setting
  c3.cfg                 # this is the default C3 type
  c3f.cfg                # this is the C3 type where only flash is used for code
  demoboard.cfg          # demoboard type
  hydra.cfg              # hydra type
  propboe.cfg            # propboe type
  propstick.cfg          # propstick type
  quickstart.cfg         # quickstart type
  spinstamp.cfg          # spinstamp type
  synapse.cfg            # synapse type
  
  
• tech-mech Posts: 14

  2016-02-26 21:22

  Thank you for your help.
  I found out that the .cfg file needs to be in 2 directories.
  
  /opt/parallax/propeller-load
  
  and
  
  /home/pi/SimpleIDE-0-9-45/parallax/propeller-load
  
  And yes I used the default user as I have several RPis and more micro SD cards.
  
• jtilghman Posts: 67

  2016-03-31 16:32

  How can I recompile this for ARM7 instead ?
  
  Trying to get SimpleIDE to run on this:
  
  nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html
  
  Thanks,
  jt
  
  
  
• jmg Posts: 15,148

  2016-03-31 20:31

  That link mentions
  NVIDIA 4-Plus-1™ Quad-Core ARM® Cortex™-A15 CPU
  
  vs Raspberry Pi models of
  BCM2837 64bit ARMv8 Cortex A53 Quad Core
  BCM2836 32bit ARMv7 Cortex A7 Quad Core
  BCM2835 32bit ARMv11 Single Core
• jtilghman Posts: 67

  2016-04-01 14:52

  I will give it shot.
  
• jtilghman Posts: 67

  2016-04-04 16:07 edited 2016-04-04 16:07

  I downloaded the SimpleIDE for RPI and went to install it.
  
  When I went to run it, got a error message that it didn't like the version of QT I had installed even tho I have QT4 and QT5 installed.
  
  This is Ubuntu 14.04 I am running on this ARM board, I am not sure what else to do to get SimpleIDE to work.
  
  I will recompile it if needed, but not sure what dependents are needed.