Building GCL under Windows
- This assumes that you have already cloned or downloaded the gigatron-rom repo.
- Do NOT do any of this under the Windows PowerShell, it won't work and you will get
nonsensical errors, use a normal command prompt.
Python Installation
1) You must install a 2.7.x version of Python, any of the 3.x versions
will not work and you will need to modify the build/compile Python source,
(not recommended as it is constantly being updated).
Build GCL at a Command Prompt
1) cd <path to gigatron repo>
2) py Core\compilegcl.py <path to GCL file>
D:\> cd D:\gigatron_rom
D:\> py Core\compilegcl.py D:\gcl\test.gcl
Building GCL in the Emulator
1) To build and automatically upload "gcl" programs under the emulator, add the absolute
path for the gigatron-rom repo directory to the "loader_config.ini" file:
[Comms] ; case sensitive
BaudRate = 115200 ; arduino software stack doesn't like > 115200
ComPort = 0 ; can be an index or a name, eg: ComPort = COM5
Timeout = 5.0 ; maximum seconds to wait for Gigatron to respond
GclBuild = D:/gigatron-rom ; must be an absolute path, can contain spaces
Building GCL under Linux/MacOS
TODO
