SimpleIDE: Problem running gcc in a Win 7 installation

MagIO2

Ok, jazzed asked me to post my problem (mentioned in a propeller thread) here, so I do without checking whether there is a similar thread!

I installed SimpleIDE 0.8.5 on my Win 7 Home Premium Netbook. If I load a quickstart demo project and try to run it, I get the following messages:

Project Directory: C:/Users/Benky/Documents/SimpleIDE/QuickStart/BlinkCogs/

propeller-elf-gcc.exe -o a.out -Os -mlmm -I . -fno-exceptions blinkcogs.c
propeller-elf-gcc.exe error ... (0)

propeller-elf-objdump -h a.out
propeller-elf-objdump error ... (0)

Done. Build Succeeded!

propeller-load.exe -I C:/Programs/propgcc/propeller-load/ -b QUICKSTART -p COM13 a.out -r
Propeller Version 1 on COM13

Ignored 5 bytes. 
error: failed to open 'a.out'

If I open a command-prompt, change to the project directory and run gcc, objdump and load as given in the log everything works fine!
Just let me know when you need some more information.

Leon

I'm using Win7 Home Premium on my laptop, and SimpleIDE worked OK for me with that same project. I used 0.7.2, which seems to be the current version. Perhaps you should try that rather than the version you used, which probably has some bugs.

jazzed

Looks like your copy of propeller-elf-gcc.exe is misbehaving.
I think the error message means that the program has been deleted somehow.

Can you list the contents of C:\propgcc\bin ?

The most recent distribution version is packaged with SimpleIDE version 0-8-5.

Thanks.

MagIO2

Ok, found the problem!

I've choosen a different folder for the gcc installation, but the installer seems to ignore this when setting the path variable. It's still c:\propgcc\bin.

Leon

jazzed wrote: »

Looks like your copy of propeller-elf-gcc.exe is misbehaving.
I think the error message means that the program has been deleted somehow.

Can you list the contents of C:\propgcc\bin ?

The most recent distribution version is packaged with SimpleIDE version 0-8-5.

Thanks.

It's still 0-7-2:

https://sites.google.com/site/propellergcc/downloads/windows-download

Where is 0-8-5?

MagIO2

Hmmm ... I see ... this must have been changed, I really have downloaded a file named Simple-IDE_0-8-5_setup.zip from the official page. Timestamp is 18.10.

jazzed

Leon makes a good point that the parallax propeller-gcc page doesn't give the latest links. We'll change that this month.

Meanwhile Leon and others can find the latest packages here: https://code.google.com/p/propside/downloads/list

eiplanner

I'm getting the same type of message. (See Image Attached)

I downloaded SimpleIDE from the link in the first sticky msg on this forum. It gave me the version 7. I installed and set folders to my preferences and then ran the program. I attempted to run the "hello world" program and got the below output. I then came back to this forum to see if anyone else encountered this problem. I found this thread. It caused me to check my version and I found that I did not have the newest. I uninstalled the first one and reinstalled the second version from the link in this thread. Upon attempting the "hello world" again, I got the same output.

I did not go with all the default folders when I ran the installation but I did adhere to the no spaces in the labels request. I put pictures of the BIN files I have.

I am running Windows Vista - Is this the problem?

eiplanner

I went back in - uninstalled the program completely - reinstalled it - accepted all the defaults during the install - and this time the "hello world" worked. I'm happy it worked and am glad I can now do something besides mess around with the downloading/installing/uninstalling/fiddling/messaging nonsense.

I would have like to be able to choose my own folders. I work hard at maintaining all my Prop programming info, files, etc... in a non-cluttered manner so that I may find them easily when I need them.

Anyhow, I'm off and running.............