Wind River Installation

[Maddog_3407]

I have been having issues installing Wind River. I re-installed Wind River this year and followed the instructions here. When I open Wind River, I am unable to set up a VxWorks Target or download Examples. There is also no FIRST Menu so I can't deploy or undeploy the program (I assume).

Error when I try to open an example
What I see when I try to setup a target

Here's what I have tried so far:

• Re-installing several times
• Installing the software on the NI CD
• Installing the updates from firstforge

If anyone has advice for what I can try to do, it would be appreciated. No one else has Wind River installed on their computers. We have it on the Classmate, but I would rather not develop off of it.

[ehochstein]

Did you uninstall the previous version on your laptop, or did you install over it? Also I want to double check, the instructions you followed on the install; did you scroll down to the existing installations section or did you start at the top?

Evan

[Maddog_3407]

I went down to Existing Installations because I had a copy (that worked ) from last year. I first tried installing over it. I have since uninstalled and installed a new copy.

[Maddog_3407]

I was able to find a solution, but it is not elegant. I copied all the files from the classmate with the working copy of Wind River to my computer. When I tried running things there were errors about a corrupted install, so I re-installed a couple of the VxWorks from the new CD.

I do notice that the FIRST downloader disappears when I run the update from firstforge. I have a backup of the .jar file. When I copy it back to the folder, the downloader appears again.

Very strange stuff, but it looks like it is working now.

[TeraViks]

I've have spent dozens of hours dealing with installing and setting up Windriver, and have found the following to be the best process to follow:

1. Turn off antivirus - THIS IS IMPORTANT!
2. Uninstall all previous versions of WR
3. Delete any remaining WR files AND the Windriver directory
4. Install both WR disks, regardless of 32/64 bit systems. MAKE SURE TO UNCHECK THE TWO BOXES AT THE END OF DISK 1.
5. Run the updates for FRC. There's a new one out for mid-season.

Hope this helps!

[Maddog_3407]

I think I did leave my antivirus on. I'll be sure to remember that next time. Thanks.

[Maddog_3407]

I finally figured out the source of this error. In the command prompt, the path variable did not contain C:\Windows\System32. This prevented the updater from replacing all the files it deleted, since it depends on xcopy, a program in that folder. Once it was fixed, everything worked as it should.