Re: [Gumstix-users] Installation gumstix on MacOSX

[Dave S. <da...@sm...>]

Vinh wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> I tried this out. The make works, but the readme states that after
> make I should run ./UMlinux, which I however don't have.
>
> Hm...any suggestions??
>
> Cheers,
> Vinh
>
> On 8/26/06, G Elliott <gel...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> you can look at scudderfish's page, i think he has patches for the
>> buildroot that allow it to be built in osx.
>> he may have stopped maintaining it though..
>>
>> http://svn.gumstix.com/gumstix-buildroot/branches/users/scudderfish/
>>
>> greg
>>
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2006, at 4:55 AM, Vinh wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> did anyone managed to install the gumstix environment on MacOSX? I
>>> have a macbook (intel dualcore) and would like to use the gumstick to
>>> control the Roomba (http://www.irobot.com). I looked up the mailing
>>> archive but haven't found anyone succeeding.
>>> Would be awesome if someone could give me a hint.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Vinh
>>>       


I'm scudderfish, and I've been in lurk mode for a few months.  I did 
have the old build system patched to run on OSX in users/scudderfish, 
but when in moved over to menuconfig I tried, but failed, to get it 
going in branches/users/osx.  I basically ran out of time and will 
fighting all the non-POSIX extensions assumed by building under GNU.  
Since then, my daughter, my car and my job have prevented me from taking 
it any further.  'scudderfish' is very old and 'osx' is broken.  If you 
have an intel Mac, I'd look at running linux under virtualisation instead.

Regards,
Dave