Re: [ECOS] MicroWindows test fails to build

["Gary Thomas" <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

Jonathan Larmour said:
> Hans Kester wrote:
>> When I
>> 1. choose the NET template for an x86 PC
>> 2. add the MicroWindows package
>> 3. enable CYGBLD_MICROWINDOWS_ECOS_APP
>> 4. build the eCos library
>> 5. build the tests
>>
>> I get the following error messages:
>>
>> [snip]
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/workdir/eCos/demo_build/io/pci/current'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/workdir/eCos/demo_install/lib/libtarget.a(services_gfx_mw_srvmain.o): In
>> function `SVR_GrBell':
>> make: Leaving directory `/ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/workdir/eCos/demo_build'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/ecos/packages/services/gfx/mw/current/src/nanox/srvmain.c:902: undefined
>> reference to `gettimeofday'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/workdir/eCos/demo_install/lib/libtarget.a(services_gfx_mw_srvfunc.o): In
>> function `SVR_GrSetPortraitMode':
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/ecos/packages/services/gfx/mw/current/src/nanox/srvfunc.c:2945: undefined
>> reference to `strdup'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/workdir/eCos/demo_install/lib/libtarget.a(services_gfx_mw_devtimer.o): In
>> function `time_to_expiry':
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/ecos/packages/services/gfx/mw/current/src/engine/devtimer.c:211: undefined
>> reference to `gettimeofday'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/ecos/packages/services/gfx/mw/current/src/engine/devtimer.c:211: undefined
>> reference to `gettimeofday'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/ecos/packages/services/gfx/mw/current/src/engine/devtimer.c:211: undefined
>> reference to `gettimeofday'
>> /ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/ecos/packages/services/gfx/mw/current/src/engine/devtimer.c:211: undefined
>> reference to `gettimeofday'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [/ecos-e/cygwin/ecos/workdir/eCos/demo_install/tests/io/pci/current/tests/pci1]
>> Error 1
>> make: *** [tests] Error 2
>>
>> Do we have a 'gettimeofday'?
>
> I see this is a failure in building the tests. There's something weird
> going on here. CYGBLD_MICROWINDOWS_ECOS_APP has a custom build rule to
> build src/ecos/ecos_app.c, which is the only file in microwindows which
> defines gettimeofday. Your only alternative to build the eCos tests would
> be, like Andrew said, to include SNMP which also happens to contain a
> compatibility version of gettimeofday, but that doesn't work either.
>
> I don't know why, if Microwindows needs those functions, they aren't
> included with the rest of the port, rather than in ecos_app.c. Gary, any
> insights?

Expediency?  Honestly, that function was just added to "ecos_app.c"
to get by.  We should find the proper place in the main libraries
to define this and move it there.


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