Document or link build dependencies

[PropGit]

@dbetz - Can you help me by documenting or linking all the build dependencies for this repository and anything else I may need to configure to build (besides just using make OS=linux)? If I try to clone and build PropLoader on Ubuntu, I get failures that for most I don't know where the resources are.

jmartin@ubuntu:~/Development/PropLoader$ make OS=linux
VERSION v1.0-30 (2017-03-30 16:25:42 g3304189)
gcc -Wall -DVERSION=\""v1.0-30 (2017-03-30 16:25:42 g3304189)"\" -DLINUX -I/home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/obj tools/split.c -o /home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/bin/split
cd spin/; openspin -o /home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/obj/IP_Loader.binary IP_Loader.spin
/bin/sh: 1: openspin: not found
Makefile:152: recipe for target '/home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/obj/IP_Loader.h' failed
make: *** [/home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/obj/IP_Loader.h] Error 127

I don't have a path/file: /home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/obj tools/split.c or the object /home/jmartin/Development/proploader-linux-build/bin/split.

Is your local PropLoader repository "proploader-linux-build" or is that something outside of your local PropLoader repository?

[dbetz]

I believe that the only dependency is on openspin. It needs to be installed and in your path.

[dbetz]

I updated README.md to indicate the dependency on OpenSpin.

[dbetz]

I also need to add instructions for building the Windows version. I do this under Linux using the MinGW cross-development tools. I've never tried building under native Windows but it should also be possible if you install the MinGW toolchain.

[PropGit]

Looks like there are more dependencies, though I know not why.

On a relatively fresh Mac VM, I cloned PropLoader and OpenSpin, built OpenSpin, added it's build folder to my path and verified. That works.

I tried again to build PropLoader and now get what looks like an error due to PropGCC being needed:

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g++ -o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/bin/proploader  /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/main.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/loader.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/fastloader.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/propimage.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/packet.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/serialpropconnection.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/serialloader.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/wifipropconnection.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/loadelf.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/sd_helper.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/config.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/expr.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/system.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/messages.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/serial_posix.o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/sock_posix.o  -lstdc++
openspin -o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/blink-fast.binary blink.spin
Propeller Spin/PASM Compiler 'OpenSpin' (c)2012-2016 Parallax Inc. DBA Parallax Semiconductor.
Version 1.00.80 Compiled on Apr 20 2017 11:31:17
Compiling...
blink.spin
Done.
Program size is 56 bytes
openspin -DSLOW -o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/blink-slow.binary blink.spin
Propeller Spin/PASM Compiler 'OpenSpin' (c)2012-2016 Parallax Inc. DBA Parallax Semiconductor.
Version 1.00.80 Compiled on Apr 20 2017 11:31:17
Compiling...
blink.spin
Done.
Program size is 56 bytes
propeller-elf-gcc -Os -mlmm -o /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/toggle.elf toggle.c
make: propeller-elf-gcc: No such file or directory
make: *** [/Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/toggle.elf] Error 1
rm /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/sd_helper.c /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/bin/bin2c /Users/jmartin/Projects/proploader-macosx-build/obj/sd_helper.binary

[dbetz]

What is the error? It's not supposed to need PropGCC.

[PropGit]

See previous post... Mac froze up before I could paste it in the first time.

[dbetz]

Okay, that's a bug in the Makefile. I build the toggle program for testing. The loader should have built okay. I'll move that to another Makefile target called 'tests' so it won't be built with the loader itself.

[PropGit]

The newest commit works. Was able to build properly on Mac OSX.

[PropGit]

Closing.