FlexProp on Pinebook Pro

Botulism

Has anyone compiled FlexProp for Manjaro on a Pinebook Pro? If so or you know how, could you educate me on the process. Yes, I stuck my right hand in the box and died.
Thanks!

ersmith

I haven't tried Manjaro, but for Ubuntu the steps are:

cd $HOME
mkdir -p src
cd src
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install tk8.6
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/wish8.6 /usr/bin/wish
git clone --recursive https://github.com/totalspectrum/flexprop
make install

You will get a warning that openspin was not found and so the P1 loader is not built. If you're developing only for P2 this won't matter. Otherwise you will have to build or find the openspin Spin compiler and add it to your PATH before doing the steps above.

Once the build is finished, the final flexprop installation will be in $HOME/flexprop. You can change this to another directory by adding an INSTALL=<dir> in the make install step, e.g.

make install INSTALL=/opt/flexprop

To run, go to the flexprop installation directory and run ./flexprop.tcl.

amock

I was able to build it with:

sudo pacman -Syu base-devel tk
git clone --recursive https://github.com/totalspectrum/flexprop
cd flexprop
make install

and OpenSpin also compiled without issues.

Botulism

Thank you much!! I had to step out of the country for a bit. Now I'm back.
I got this to compile (I think fine), but is there some trick to programming the Propeller? I can't seem to get that part to work.

ersmith

What kind of problem are you having programming your Propeller? What error messages (if any) are there?

Botulism

Given the end user in mind for this system, the decision was made to cease pursuing the Pinebook. The platform and the software aren't mature enough for the end user.