[Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I did search] Has anyone managed to get WinARM working with Windows 7? I have, as far as I can tell, exactly the same setup as WinARM on XP, which worked. (And the same Makefile.) I'm starting it with the batch file: [Programmer's Notepad.bat] @echo off set ARM=c:\WinARM set PATH=%ARM%\libexec\gcc\arm-elf\4.1.2;%ARM%\bin;%ARM%\arm-elf\bin;%ARM%\u tils\bin; start %ARM%\pn\pn.exe [/Programmer's Notepad.bat] pn.exe starts correctly, and I can open a project group and edit files. The problem is that Make doesn't work. Sometimes the error symptom is a popup that says "sh.exe has stopped working". This can be resolved to the message "Unhandled exception at 0x774f8db9 in sh.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000014." (I've seen this error before, but was able to live with it because it was intermittent.) More often, though, trying to do any Make operation, including even "[WinARM_G] Make Clean", results in nothing happening at all, or at least nothing visible. There is no output window, even though the output window is enabled in the "View" menu. I emphasize that this is with exactly the same source and project files, on a shared drive, as for a project that worked with WinARM under Windows XP.
Hi. Why don't you try to execute editor in Admin mode or use Compatibility Mode for XP on W7? I worked with me.
Hallo Peter, the problem is the "make"-program. The binary included in the WinArm-installation doesn't work under Win7. You just have to replace the make.exe with another version. I think i replaced the make.exe with a version from the Atmel AVR Studio or some where else from the internet... It works perfect. Regards Thomas
I tried the AVR make program and it didn't fix the problem. One thing that did work was removing quotes from an echo message. -Dave
The only maintainer of WinARM (=me) just keeps the old WinARM packages online since they are a "battery included" distribution (toolchain, utilties, examples) which may help beginners. There are enough alternatives for the toolchain in WinARM available so I suggest to use an up-to-date GNU ARM cross-toolchain package for MS Windows hosts (Codesourcery CodeBench/Sourcery G++ for "bare metal" ARM-EABI, Yagarto, DevkitARM; links on the WinARM page) and the latest tools (make, echo, rm, shell,...) from the MinGW project. Installing WinAVR is an option to avoid problems with incompatible tools (not the cross-toolchain itself) since it installs build-tools from the MinGW project. If WinAVR is installed the utils-directory from WinARM can be removed from the system search-path and deleted (see WinARM readme.txt). With a few modifications in the makefile the only tools which are included in the Codesourcery package (cs-make.exe and cs-rm.exe) will do in most cases when using a MS-OS as host-platform. This is the method I currently prefer since it avoids conflicts due to tools with the same filename in the system's search path but different options and output like find.exe and sort.exe from MS-"DOS" or GNU. General offer (off-topic): If there is anything in the WinARM-package which is so special that it prevents a migration to a more up-to-date toolchain-collection please send an e-mail and I will try to help with the update. e-mail address at the bottom of the WinARM-page.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Meanwhile, however, I had moved on to other approaches. Initially a command-line use of yagarto, and frankly I found a command-line approach a lot easier to use than an IDE. (But I guess that beginners will indeed find it easier to have everything packaged into an IDE.) Now, after a processor and development board upgrade (to an LPC1788) I'm finding that I'm having to move to a commercial IDE (IAR) just because of the complexity of the directory structure used for the code base.
Peter Moylan wrote: > Now, after a processor and development > board upgrade (to an LPC1788) I'm finding that I'm having to move to a > commercial IDE (IAR) just because of the complexity of the directory > structure used for the code base. This is the only reason? It's not too complicated to handle different source directories using make/makefile. But of cause this is a matter of taste. I prefer to keep all settings in a single text-file (makefile) instead of clicking through various dialogs. The makefiles in the examples available from this page might serve as templates: http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.de/avr_projects/arm_projects/arm_memcards/index.html
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