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Downloadable chipKIT core for use with Arduino 1.6 - 1.8+ IDE, PlatformIO, and UECIDE
http://chipkit.net/
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chipKIT Windows Stk500 Driver #281

Open JacobChrist opened 7 years ago

JacobChrist commented 7 years ago

The chipKIT Windows installer is built using .NET 3.5. Windows 8+ computers do not have this installed by default (but do have 1.0 ,20 and 4.0). It would be nice to rebuild using either an older or newer version of .NET.

majenkotech commented 7 years ago

Alternatively re-write the whole thing as a Nullsoft installer script.

You can create a single installer that is compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Sever 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012R2

(I guess the web page hasn't been updated since 10 was released)

JacobChrist commented 7 years ago

Schmalz created the last exe, and its signed. If its easy for him to update then that would be nice. If not this maybe an alternative. Also, to get around the issue we just install from the inf, however the chipKIT wiki says to use the installer which doesn't work on Windows 8 without installing .NET 3.5.

JacobChrist commented 7 years ago

I'm in no need of this, just thought its an issue that might affect others.

majenkotech commented 7 years ago

Since I have some minor experience with NSIS through using it for UECIDE maybe I could take a look at revamping the installer... From what I read though installing drivers is different from Vista onwards and NSIS doesn't directly support it, so calling an external (standard windows) binary to do the job is needed. Not sure how to make that decision in NSIS though...

EmbeddedMan commented 7 years ago

Jacob,

Unfortunately, we get that installer straight from Microchip. I don't know much about how to recompile it with different dependencies. Maybe if somebody has more Windows .Net programming experience this would be a trivial thing to change.

It would be great if we could do it as a Nullsoft script - that's how we do the EggBot installer, and it works great. (Again, I didn't write it, but the guy who did isn't a Windows programmer either.)

*Brian

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Alternatively re-write the whole thing as a Nullsoft installer script.

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EmbeddedMan commented 7 years ago

Yeah, Microchip has a nice word document that explains how to take the .inf file, modify it for your own uses, then wrap it up with their installer exe and sign the whole thing with your own cert so that it won't trigger warnings on Windows 8/10. So that's all I did - I bought the cert (which I just renewed) and followed their instruction. I didn't have anything to do with how their installer is compiled though.

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JacobChrist commented 7 years ago

If the code is available I can rebuild for 4.0.

Jacob

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Yeah, Microchip has a nice word document that explains how to take the .inf file, modify it for your own uses, then wrap it up with their installer exe and sign the whole thing with your own cert so that it won't trigger warnings on Windows 8/10. So that's all I did - I bought the cert (which I just renewed) and followed their instruction. I didn't have anything to do with how their installer is compiled though.

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majenkotech commented 7 years ago

So Windows has a program called "dpinst.exe" that installs drivers for you. Someone else has used that, along with nsis, to make an installer for their driver (MIT licensed script :) ).

I have taken that script and associated dpinst files and made a pair of installers for the chipKIT drivers (a 32-bit and a 64-bit installer).

I suggest someone with admin privs makes a new "chipKIT Drivers" repo on here that we can work in. Then I will post this test version there for us to play with.

EmbeddedMan commented 7 years ago

You mean something like this? https://github.com/chipKIT32/chipKIT-drivers

*Brian

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So Windows has a program called "dpinst.exe" that installs drivers for you. Someone else has used that, along with nsis, to make an installer for their driver (MIT licensed script :) ).

I have taken that script and associated dpinst files and made a pair of installers for the chipKIT drivers (a 32-bit and a 64-bit installer).

I suggest someone with admin privs makes a new "chipKIT Drivers" repo on here that we can work in. Then I will post this test version there for us to play with.

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majenkotech commented 7 years ago

Yes, something exactly like that.

majenkotech commented 7 years ago

Ok PR on the other repo made. One thing that may now want changing with the script is to make it get the driver files from the existing structure rather than having its own internal copy.