Obscure Wind River Workbench Problem

[pupperish]

Hi Yara92,

I'm running Vista x64 on a HP HDX 18 laptop. I just uninstalled everything, turned off antivirus and reinstalled but I still have the same problem. It sounds like Vista x64 isn't supported?

Good luck to us.

[wt200999]

Same issue here with my comp, I'm running Windows 7 64bit.

[pupperish]

Welcome to the club wt200999. I noticed there is an install into eclipse option on the workbench help menu. So I downloaded eclipse 3.5.1, 3.4.2, and 3.3.2. I was able to install into eclipse 3.3.2. but still get the same problem. It appears that maybe its just a windriver problem in the menu that sets up the tgtsvr options. Maybe there is a file we can edit to set these options?

[Mike Mahar]

The install pamphlet that came with the DVDs this hear says the Windriver runs on XP 32 bit and Vista 32 bit. If they say that it doesn't work on 64bit than I'm inclined to believe them.

[pupperish]

I was able to get the VxWorks6x_10.xx.xx.2 connection to show up in the Remote Systems window by copying the /WindRiver/.wind/wtxregd.xxx file from a working installation and modifying it. I will test downloading to robot tomorrow.

[yara92]

Originally Posted by pupperish

Hi Yara92,

I'm running Vista x64 on a HP HDX 18 laptop. I just uninstalled everything, turned off antivirus and reinstalled but I still have the same problem. It sounds like Vista x64 isn't supported?

Good luck to us.

I change my laptop to one with XP it is working perfect WindRiver

[pupperish]

Vista 64 seems useable now. I was able to download and run code on the robot. Refresh of windows on resize seems a little flaky in workbench. The target console window prints data from the bot OK but if you type commands they come out garbled.

[BradAMiller]

I just got word from Wind River. They unfortunately don't support 64 bit editions of Windows for this version of Workbench. So while it might work, they don't expect it to be fully functional.

Feel free to try it, but if you get any unexpected results, you might try the same thing on a computer with a 32 bit version of XP or Vista.

Also, I've been running with 32 bit versions of Windows 7 and it seems to work fine even though the "official word" is that we only support XP and Vista.

[correnos]

Great. So I have to get a VM running just to download code to the stupid bot?

Does anyone know if there's a c compiler and downloader usable from the command line? Linux compatibility is a definite plus.

[BradAMiller]

Originally Posted by correnos

Great. So I have to get a VM running just to download code to the stupid bot?

The point wasn't that you need a VM to do this, the idea was that it works on a cleanly installed computer...

Here is some advice from WindRiver:
I've seen Workbench fail before with this message: "cannot execute command: cmd", this basically means the Windows the customer is running on cannot find cmd.exe in it's path, this is very unusual indeed.
The last time we saw this we made the customer add "%SystemRoot%\system32\" to his path and then run workbench, in this case I'd suggest to alter the path and then re-install from scratch since postinstall might not work in such cases either...

You can update the path variable in the System properties (right click on the computer name in explorer), then properties, then "Advanced" tab. Then "Environment variables", then under the "System variables" area, edit the one called PATH. Make sure that "%SystemRoot%\system32\" is in the list, and if not add it using a semicolon to separate it from the other items in the list.

Since I can't duplicate the problem, I can't know for sure if this will fix your situation.