WinARM and Windows Vista

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I have been trying to have a play with WinARM and Programmers notepad, just to get a feel for it and have run into some problems, basically I can’t get anything to compile, even any of the SFE device firmwares. I thought I found a fix on the net with environment paths but then it just changed to a new error.

Current errors are:

Compiling C: main.c
arm-elf-gcc -c  -mcpu=arm7tdmi-s -mthumb-interwork -I. -gdwarf-2 -DROM_RUN  -D__WinARM__ -I  -Os -Wall -Wcast-align -Wimplicit  -Wpointer-arith -Wswitch -Wredundant-decls -Wreturn-type -Wshadow -Wunused -Wa,-adhlns=main.lst  -ISYSTEM/ -ILPCUSB/ -Wcast-qual -MD -MP -MF .dep/main.o.d -Wnested-externs  -std=gnu99 -Wmissing-prototypes  -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations main.c -o main.o 
main.c:62: fatal error: opening dependency file .dep/main.o.d: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make.exe: *** [main.o] Error 1

or on the SFE UberBoard firmware

Size before:
      0 [main] sh 10304 sync_with_child: child 9544(0x118) died before initialization with status code 0x0
  19727 [main] sh 10304 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp
/usr/bin/sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
make.exe: *** [sizebefore] Error 128

I am thinking maybe I should just buy myself a nice older laptop with XP. Then at least I will have serial and parallel ports.

Is anyone here successfully using WinARM on Vista?

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Hello,

where do you have installed WinARM?

Please do not install WinARM in the folder “c:\Program Files” or

“c:\Programme”. In this case you will get some problems.

Try to install WinARM e.g. c:\WinARM and check if it works now.

Best regards,

mifi

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It is “installed” in the standard C:\WinARM location.

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Problem solved, sort of.

I ended up running it using VMWare running Windows XP.

I guess I will just wait until Vista is supported.