tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86769442011-12-14T21:35:27.405-05:00VxWorks Blog by GJCamannThis Blog is specific to VxWorks and embedded programming issues in general. I would love it if anyone else that has a VxWorks Blog or wants to have one would contact me so we can collaborate. There are just not enough places to find help for VxWorks. Feel free to contact me by sending gjc_tech a message through my Y A Hoo account.gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1159820621785048322006-10-02T16:20:00.000-04:002006-10-02T16:23:42.706-04:00CPP calling FORTRAN DLLNewbie guide.Using Microsoft Visual Studio MSVS 2005 C++ CPP code to call a dll made by Intel Visual FORTRAN. Create your Fortran DLL1. New Project -> Intel(R) Fortran Projects -> Dynamic-link Library. Name: FDLL OK FINISH2. Edit FDLL.F90! FDLL.f90! Fortran subroutine which is called from a C main program.! The source is structured so that it can be built either! as a DLL or just mixedgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1144443668859203372006-04-07T17:01:00.000-04:002006-04-07T17:01:09.086-04:00TortoiseCVSBye Bye WinCVS, full functionality, no bugs and Windows Explorer integration... Hello TortoiseCVS. What a relief to finally have an alternative to WinCVS.gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1143821392817781622006-03-31T11:09:00.000-05:002006-03-31T11:09:53.166-05:00Hewlett-Packard Test DriveHP is letting people use their test servers that have a variety of OS's and Processors. Might be handy some day.gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1132593629464305722005-11-21T12:20:00.000-05:002005-11-21T12:20:29.506-05:00How To Write Unmaintainable CodeProbably the most complete collection of ways to write obfuscated code. Absolutely brilliant, i reference it every day when i'm coding to make sure my code stays Unique!gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1131982811530639052005-11-14T10:40:00.000-05:002005-11-14T10:40:11.563-05:00OmniNerd - Articles: Is a Hybrid Worth It?gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1131647673431025812005-11-10T13:34:00.000-05:002005-11-10T13:34:33.473-05:00GPS NMEA data in plane englishgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1127994942537004152005-09-29T07:55:00.000-04:002005-09-29T07:55:42.563-04:00JavaScript Source: Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And HelpJavaScript Source: Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And Helpgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1122919917497999952005-08-01T14:11:00.000-04:002006-01-25T10:28:51.776-05:00particletree Successful Strategies for Commenting CodeWorth a read one and a while.gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1121866442518865932005-07-20T09:34:00.000-04:002005-07-20T09:34:02.526-04:00Google Moon - Lunar Landing SitesGoogle Moon - Lunar Landing Sitesgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1121091816294360192005-07-11T10:23:00.000-04:002005-07-11T10:23:36.333-04:00VxWorks PPC Web ServerThis project implemented the open source "GoAhead" web server in VxWorks.
PowerPC Projectsgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1119983594214903422005-06-28T14:33:00.000-04:002005-06-28T14:33:14.253-04:00Error Message GalleryError Message Gallerygjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1119238217700615532005-06-19T23:29:00.000-04:002005-06-19T23:30:17.703-04:00Wiki Bookshas useful online books on ada, maybe more!gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1107373604062528482005-02-02T14:46:00.001-05:002005-02-02T14:46:44.063-05:00VxWorksCookBook - blueDonkey.orgCool, an online Wiki type Collabrative VxWorks Book. Not too shabby!gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1107373585966910922005-02-02T14:46:00.000-05:002005-02-02T14:46:25.966-05:00VxWorksCookBook - Books - blueDonkey.orgCool, an online Wiki type Collabrative VxWorks Book. Not too shabby!gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1107373489019073482005-02-02T14:44:00.000-05:002005-02-02T14:44:49.020-05:00VxWorksCookbookWorkingWithVxWorks - Books - blueDonkey.orgCool! An online Wiki type Collabrative VxWorks Book. Brilliant, good for beginners. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1107369799920783002005-02-02T13:43:00.000-05:002005-02-02T13:43:19.920-05:00AppNote 41User-Reserved Memory Macrogjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1107369748101890322005-02-02T13:42:00.000-05:002005-02-02T13:42:28.100-05:00AppNote 42Dynamic Memory Sizinggjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1106843101839973912005-01-27T11:25:00.000-05:002005-01-27T11:25:01.840-05:00Freeware Hex Editor XVI32The best hex editor in the world, guaranteed to save your butt sooner or later. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1106669661648025782005-01-25T11:07:00.000-05:002005-01-25T11:14:21.646-05:00Perl Change C++ Style comments to C StyleHere is a perl program that will convert all those C++ style comments (i.e. //) to C style (i.e. /**/).
#!/usr/bin/perl
# CommentsCppToC - Convert C++ style comments to C style
# by G.C. (c) 2005
# this code is covered under a gnu license.
# no warranty, use at own risk
use warnings;
use IO::File;
# This will replace all CPP style comments "//" with
# /* .. */'s. Call this program gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1106234070702624642005-01-20T10:01:00.000-05:002005-01-20T10:14:30.703-05:00VxWorks SCSI Device Init - BasicThis describes the basic steps for initializing a SCSI device with an existing dosFs under VxWorks from the target shell. In your code you should consider creating a cach for this device - see the cbioLib. (these calls can be found in the scsiLib and dosFsLib)
/* for device with SCSI ID = 2, LUN = 0, probe device for other details */
-> pDisk = scsiPhysDevCreate( pSysScsiCtrl, 2,0,0,0,0,0,0)
/*gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1105820106188220962005-01-15T15:15:00.000-05:002005-01-15T15:34:26.606-05:00VxWorks SCSIHere is a bunch of links to help in accessing a SCSI device for VxWorks, then booting from it.
Thales Computers - VxWorks SCSI Howto : covers adding SCSI to kernel and booting from SCSI.
WindRiver AppNote 26 - Using SCSI devices with VxWorks 5.x :
WindRiver AppNote 26 - Using SCSI devices with VxWorks 5.4 :
WindRiver TechTip - Config SCSI II disk in Tornado 2.2 :
WindRiver TechTip - Boot VxWorksgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1105539698816987972005-01-12T09:21:00.000-05:002005-01-12T09:21:38.816-05:00Programming Pointers by Dan SaksEmbedded Systems Magazine runs a column titled "Programming Pointers" by Dan Saks. These are great articles about C and C++ and cover all sorts of useful topics that most programmers never bother understanding. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1104961100022991892005-01-05T16:16:00.000-05:002005-01-05T16:40:57.906-05:00An ADA Pointer Tutorial for C codersI'm using GNAT (the GNU Ada) and trying to use pointers al-al C style, because i need to interface C code that uses pointers to pointers (yuck!). Anyways here's some sample code that shows how to create pointers, dereference pointers, assign pointers and all that good stuff.
with GNAT.IO; use GNAT.IO;
procedure PointerTutorial is
-- declare needed types
type POINTER is access all gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1104791553375686652005-01-03T17:32:00.000-05:002005-01-03T17:32:33.376-05:00PathSync | Cockos IncorporatedI haven't used this yet, but it sounds promissing. This will compare and sync 2 directory paths. This could be super handy. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1103835642494684052004-12-23T15:47:00.000-05:002004-12-23T16:00:42.496-05:00Piff - Biff but with Perl for WindowsMy slow computer at work takes forever to load Outlook and Outlook uses too much memory but i'd still like to know when i get an important email so i wrote one in perl. So anyways this just runs in a dos window and checks for new email every so often then displays the time sent, sender address and subject line. Hope it helps. (yeah i know it gives a warning when you start it, if you fix it let gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1103312461088611392004-12-17T14:41:00.000-05:002004-12-17T14:41:01.086-05:00Coyote Linux FirewallThe Coyote Linux Firewall is my choice for an easy to setup Firewall. Setting up a linux box as a firewall was way too confusing for me, so I use CFL that requires a spare PC with 2 NIC's and a floppy drive. CFL comes downloaded as a windows app that you run, select your NIC's, then have it copy everything to a floppy. Throw the floppy into your Firewall machine and your rollin, securely. I've gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1103312032061053762004-12-17T14:33:00.000-05:002004-12-17T14:33:52.060-05:00Proxy+I've used this great internet proxy to share an (dialup) internet connection with multiple computers. It runs on windows (because that's all my ISP supports) but easily lets Linux machines use the internet connection. Also has some good security features and all kinds of other goodies i never needed. Free version supports 3 connections, perfect for me! Never had any problems. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1103222622929707542004-12-16T13:31:00.000-05:002004-12-16T13:43:42.930-05:00Sample code for simple VxWorks Serial Device DriverOK, writing a serial driver for VxWorks may seem rather intimidating, mostly due to the scetchy documentation, unless you wasted a week of your life and several $k's just to get the WindRiver VxWorks Device Driver Workshop Classnotes. But it really is easy. All you're doing is using a character (char) driver, writing then closing or doing whatever else you want.
The first thing to do is to opengjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1103219839635727062004-12-16T12:57:00.000-05:002004-12-16T12:57:19.636-05:00VxWorks - Device Driver DevelopmentThis is almost a handly page on VxWorks Device Drivers covering character devices and block devices. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1103043429791899302004-12-14T11:57:00.000-05:002004-12-14T11:57:09.790-05:00TFTP ServerHere is a good free tftpd for windows xp / windowsxp / winxp gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1102699339473992272004-12-10T13:22:00.000-05:002004-12-21T09:12:03.240-05:00War FTP - Free FTP Server for windowsWhat do you do when you need an FTP server / Daemon and tech support is too slow in installing IIS for you? Find a free one. Here is a good one! GNU / winXP / windows XP / windowsxp
gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1102448092224515912004-12-07T14:34:00.000-05:002004-12-07T14:34:52.223-05:00www.dedicated-systems.comThis site has very good technical reviews of VxWorks and other popular RTOS's. A must for embedded systems developers.gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1099345373287839772004-11-01T16:42:00.000-05:002004-11-01T16:42:53.286-05:00DARPA Office ProgramsLooking for work? One of my brilliant friends used this web site to figure out who was hiring for cool programs. And it worked!
Also tons of cool mind blowing ideas can be found here. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1098450540712778612004-10-22T09:09:00.000-04:002004-11-22T12:02:51.523-05:00Mixing C and C++ Code in the Same ProgramEver try to call C++ from C-code? Yuck! How about accessing C++ classes from C-code? (Wouldn't it be easier to just rewrite everything in C++?)
Well this Technical Article from Sun does a pretty good job at describing how to do it. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1098374491338845572004-10-21T12:01:00.000-04:002004-10-21T12:01:31.336-04:00C Programming ReferenceMostly C code stuff, good examples.gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1098208682269978362004-10-19T13:58:00.000-04:002004-10-21T07:06:19.406-04:00Tech Talk about C++ and C Issues FAQPretty good nitty gritty discussion of C++ and C issuesgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1098185315214892442004-10-19T07:28:00.000-04:002004-10-19T08:09:22.070-04:00Eclipse Open Source IDE
This java based, multiplatform, open source, free, extensible IDE is amazing. Watch out MSVS. It is no wonder WindRiver is scrapping their Tornado IDE in favor of Eclipse (Thank god). This IDE is written in Java and has a java flavor for most things. But with the add on tool kits it's my favorite IDE for Ada, C, C++ and Perl development. The C++ Developers Toolkit keeps track of classes and gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1098104285709278042004-10-18T08:58:00.000-04:002004-10-18T08:58:05.710-04:00VxWorks Error ReportingThis page has details on a pretty good error handler. gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097690215807354542004-10-13T13:54:00.000-04:002004-10-15T15:30:38.546-04:00Review of Fast BugTrack V4.29 Overview FastBugTrack by Alcea Technologies Inc. is a Web-based defect / bug / issue tracking tool with a built-in Database and Web-Server. Feature Advantage Benefit Web-Based Accessible through a web browser Can be accessed by any computer Built-in Database Does not require additional database gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097670022238996722004-10-13T08:20:00.000-04:002004-10-13T14:21:41.540-04:00Good LinksVxWorks
VxWorks and Tornado II FAQ
comp.os.vxworks Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) [LONG]
WindRiver
General Coding
CodeGuru
CodeProject
Ada
Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming by John English
Ada95 Lovelace Tutorial
C++
Function Pointer Turorial
Saleem Ansari's VC++ Tutorial
Embedded Linux
Debian - Forget RedHat / Fedora.. This is "The" linux distro
Ubuntu Linux - user friendlygjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097528371803592132004-10-11T16:59:00.000-04:002004-10-20T11:33:07.703-04:00Howto Manually Integrate VxWorks into EclipseI can't stand Tornado and I can't wait for WindRiver to get their stuff working, so here's what I did to at least get some minimal Tornado Functionality from Eclipse.
This probably isn't the greatest way to do it, but it'll at least get you going. If someone has a better way, please let me know.
* Install Eclipse and the CDT plugin
* Create project in Tornado
* Create a C/C Simple Make Projectgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097522542319763142004-10-11T14:34:00.000-04:002004-10-11T15:22:22.320-04:00Howto taskSpawn a C++ / CPP member functionFirst you need to know some function pointer stuff so if you need to look here for an excellent Function Pointer Tutorial.
Now the problem with VxWorks referencing anything in a C++ class (weather it be functions or variables) is that their symbol is not accessable unless they are static (I know, that really stinks doesn't it?).
So you need to make a static wrapper for the function you want to gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097519173445310942004-10-11T14:26:00.000-04:002004-10-11T14:34:18.496-04:00Howto compile VxWorks / Tornado from Command LineHowto compile VxWorks / Tornado from Command Line / commandline using a batch / bat file
Tornado creates a Makefile in the projects directory. To use this makefile to compile a project from the command line you need to initialize some variables then call make. You can put the following into you batch file, then just run this bat file from the command line in the project folder.
rem this file gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097517889887279972004-10-11T14:04:00.000-04:002004-10-11T14:04:49.886-04:00VxWorks and Tornado II FAQVxWorks and Tornado II FAQgjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676944.post-1097517721111970222004-10-11T14:02:00.000-04:002004-10-11T14:02:01.110-04:00Run C++ / CPP programs in VxSimRun C++ / CPP programs in VxSim
After just installing VxWorks 5.5.1 and Tornado 2.2.1 I could not download a C++ program to VxSim without getting "Unresolved symbols encountered while downloading" dialog box reading:
Errors while downloading C:/Source/VxWorks2Cpp/SIMNTgnu/VxWorks2cpp.out:
___builtin_delete
___builtin_new
___sjthrow
___rtti_user
___get_eh_context
___terminate
(Even the factory gjcamannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410906859840453926noreply@blogger.com2