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Whitefield provides a simulation environment for wireless sensor networks by combining RF simulation provided by NS3 and network stack provided by popular IoT OSes such as Contiki/RIOT/OpenThread.
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Atomic_sync.c file compilation error when activating RIOT #118

Closed sabriCHALLOUF closed 3 years ago

sabriCHALLOUF commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug OS : Ubuntu 20.04 GCC version : 9.3.0 or 7.5.0 After installation of the Whitefield and when activating the the RIOT OS using ./scripts/setup --riot 1, the installation is aborted with an error related to the compilation of the file : atomic_sync.c file

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Under Ubuntu 20.04
  2. Download the Whitefield sources
  3. Set up the Whitefield with default options
  4. Activate the RIOT OS using in the Whitefield directory the command : ./scripts/setup --riot 1
  5. See error

Expected behavior No error should be raised and the activation of the RIOT should terminate successfully.

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Additional context May be the GCC version cause this problem.

sabriCHALLOUF commented 3 years ago

I tried with the Ubuntu 16.04 containing gcc version 5.7 and the problem disappears.

nyrahul commented 3 years ago

Fixed this issue with PR #119.

The problem was that Whitefield was using an old fork of RIOT which could not compile on the latest GCC.

This fix will make Whitefield with RIOT + Contiki work on Ubuntu 20.04 with the latest GCC.

Synced the Whitefield's RIOT fork to upstream latest. Handled all the corresponding changes in netif/netdev interfaces of RIOT and now it compiles all fine.

Ideally, in the future, it would be great to have Whitefield's plug-and-play mode operating with RIOT such that there is no dependency on synchronizing with the latest RIOT all the time.