i’ve inherited a project that is long term out of support (all involved developers are long gone - nearly decades) and all i got is a XP VM (i think a VM conversion of the original development system) with the project source that compiles and (luckily) creates the very same firmware as the latest available release - great so far
my problem:
the XP VM that the development is based on is a complete mess, full of unrelated tools, some sort of very organic grown system for everyones fun and i have no idea how to setup a new/clean system exclusivly for this development (even when staying on good old XP) and i can’t find any setups for NET+Works 6.3 and no developer around me knows how to find them
question:
i think its a plain NET+Works 6.3 installation with all default tools etc - nothing special
does DIGI got an archive for legacy tools were i can get a clean setup of NET+Works 6.3?
this way i can create a fresh XP (or Win7) VM knowing that i got everything around to keep that project working in the future?
Specs: (i don’t know were to find the exact information)
Platform: unclear
and according to the makefiles
CHIP: NS7520
PROCESSOR: arm7 (-mcpu=arm7tdmi)
thank you LeonidM - are you from the support or some superhero knowing the right download links
i will install on a fresh XP/Win7 system and try to migrate the project (carefully) to new the home then
UPDATE:
Question(s)1:
the current development system is 6.3.20 (according to the registry) - yours is 6.3.61 (6.3c)
-do you think that is still compatible? (only bugfixes/small changes etc.?)
-possible to get the exact 6.3.20 or are these version long gone?
(it seems that some headers/source etc. are changed by integrating 3rd-parties stuff manually- so its not easy to see what is different to a clean 6.3.20 installation)
(i will still try to use the more recent version)
Question2:
there seems to be also an 7.5 port of the firmware available
(not fully done as i understood so far from the sparse docs from the developer on the VM)
can you also provide a link to the latest 7.5 version - i think also findable under ftp1.digi.com - /support/images/connect/devkit/iso/ but the other files are password protected
the current development system is 6.3.20 (according to the registry) - yours is 6.3.61 (6.3c)
the iso from the link is the latest one. I don’t think anything else exists. It’s from 2008. The later version should have the latest patches and should always be preferred.
The password to unzip the file is n3t0s75 After installing Netos open DigiESP and install al the patches from package manager. Only then try to create build and run Netos sample application.
ok - then i need to be extra carefully to detect what changed between 6.3.20 and 6.3.61
and what parts getting changed by the original developer of my project - he did changes to the netos63_gnu folder with its own headers/libs etc… - not fully clear whats digis and whats his changes
but thanks trying to help me with that
The link to the NET+OS 7.5.2 ISO
got it
it needs a license on setup - is the license freely available or do i need to find the original license somewere on the system?
out of curiosity:
is the newlib(and the other libs) source code that was used to build the 6.3.61 version also available?
it seems to be newlib 1.12.0 - with minor header changes - but i can’t see if there are changes in the sources iteself (beside whats get replaced with the gnusrc-folder c files)
