eclipse & Kevin's camera code

Technical Programming
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howdy –

i’m using eclipse f’r my IDE and am trying to integrate some of Kevin’s camera code into our code, but i get a link error reading:
“Error - processor types do not agree across all input files.”
when i try to use this year’s .lkr and library files.
i’m not quite sure what this error means let alone how to fix it, so any help would be greatly appreciated

~Xavier

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The processor upgrade (/new code because of that) broke the old build tools on the Linux side. I’ve got everything compiling using the configure.py script pointed to by this post. That creates a Makefile which will correctly build the code.

I’m using OpenLDev as my IDE now… nice that I don’t have to load the huge Java VM. :slight_smile:

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intresting – i’m hoping to keep w. eclipse (i wanna keep everything in windows) but i’ll look into alternatives, i just dont wanna be forced back to mplab

thanks f’r the info

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Oops… didn’t realize you were on Windows. :slight_smile: You’ll probably have to get in touch with the person who made the plugin. shrug

The full thread may help you to figure out what needs to be updated.

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The new camera code compiles fine under eclipse/windows. Try cleaning first. (BTW, I’ve come up with a “generic” makefile that uses $(wildcard) and % to compile everything. I’ll post it if there’s interest.)

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The eclipse plug-in will work with 2004/5 and 2006 controllers.

You have to make sure that all the files are for the same processor type. In the case of the 2006 controller, if is 18F8722. Check these things:

  1. right-click on the project in the left-side project window. Select properties. Then select C/C++ Build. From there, select “Compilation Information”. In this window, the processor type should read: “-p=18F8722” to set the 2006 controller.
  2. Make sure that you are linking with this years libraries from IFI
  3. Make sure that you are linking with the 18F8722 linker file (18F8722.lkr).
    The last two items are on the “Linker Information” page of the project properties window.

If any of these don’t agree, then you’ll get that message.

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yea – i found the problem, its compiling all the files with “-p=18F8520”
i can’t find how to change that for the 2006 controler, might i have an old version of the plugin where i can’t change that value?

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That’s me. :slight_smile:

This may be possible, however; I have an even better solution.
I’ve posted a new plug-in on our team website (it may be finicky as we recently had a power outage at school).
First delete the old plug in, which should be either a folder or jar file with the name org.eclipse.cdt.mcc18.toolchain_version number
Then restart eclipse, and go to help, software updates, find and install…
Choose find a new feature to install, and click next.
Then select new remote site and give the site a name, and enter
http://team254.bcp.org/update_site for the URL and click OK.
Then click next. Click the checkbox, and click next or finish (whichever is active) When it prompts you as to whether you really want to install the plug-in click install.
It will then ask you to restart eclipse. Click yes.
Any projects you create now using the CDT and Managed Make will now have two configurations, one for pre-2006 controllers (i.e. PIC18f8520) and one for the 2006 controller (default.) You will have to recreate any old projects.
This should allow you to compile 2006 code very easily. If you have any urgent questions PM me or send me an email, or else post them in this thread, or a new one if they warrant a new thread.
Glad to see my work is of use!

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wow
thanks a million. you are my hero for writing this plugin
bows graciously
thanks again

~Xavier

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Hmmm

Following your instructions above, I deleted and reinstalled the plugin from the team254 site. Restarted eclipse. Created a new project and copied all the source files from the old one. I have some problems:

in properties, if I click on C/C++ Build, I get “an error has occured, see log for details”.

If I do a project/clean and try to look at the console output, it says “no console is available”

Any suggestions?

Bill

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Occasionally, when I install a plugin, it throws an error the first time but not after.

Also, what was the error? (Help > About Eclipse SDK; Configuration Details; View Error Log. Scroll all the way down.)

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Thanks. It’s not a first time error, it’s every time. I can’t use the mcc18 plugin at all. More specifically, I get the error whenever I try to touch the C18 properties or the MPLinker properites. I.e.
right-click project>Properties>C/C++ Build>Tool Settings>C18 Compiler --> kaboom

The error from the log is not very helpful. It’s getting an array out of bounds. I assume something in the plugin is messed up and it’s trying to show a property that does not exist or something. The beginning of the error is:


!ENTRY org.eclipse.jface 4 2 2006-01-24 06:22:36.264
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface".
!STACK 0
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
	at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.ArrayList.get(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.properties.BuildToolSettingsPage.getToolFlags(BuildToolSettingsPage.java:259)
	at org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.properties.BuildToolSettingsPage.updateAllOptionField (long stack trace follows)

BTW - thanks for telling me how to find that log, I had always wondered.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, no difference on that. My Eclipse version is 3.1.1 and it worked fine with an older MCC18 plugin that didn’t offer the 8722 support.

Bill

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Using the online version, this is verifiable. (I get the same/similar issue on mine.)

I would recomend using the old version (1.2) from the whitepaper thread. MAKE SURE YOU UNINSTALL THIS ONE FIRST!

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Ben;
I tried the above process but continue to be blocked at the server as unauthorized access. I have read all of the threads mentioned but did not see any sort of registrations instructions. P.S. I am using Eclipse to also write code for the Palm PDA even have worked on some code published elsewhere using the Palm as a robotics controller. Thanks for your help!

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Sorry for the problems.

However, just to make some things clear. You can’t download the plug-in by clicking on the link. You need to copy the URL into Eclipse’s update manager.
(I have a feeling that the problem might have something to do with a slight change I made to the plug-in soon after publishing it.)

I’m working on it now. I’ll post when I am sure that (at least as sure as I can be) it works.

Thanks for your help,

Ben

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Thanks for this work Ben.

We did install the way you suggested, using the update manager. So that’s not the problem.

Recreating all existing projects (we have a bunch of them) every time the plugin is updated is a big pain. Then getting the new projects sync’d up with the CVS server is yet more pain. Do you see any way to beat that?

Thanks again, eclipse is so much nicer to work in than the alternative.

Bill

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Sorry, that was directed to lupjohn, who said that he got an unauthorized access error from the server. (There is no index.html file for that folder so if you click on the link you get a 403 Forbidden error.) For example, if you go to team254.bcp.org/update_site/site.xml you will not get a forbidden error. This is the file Eclipse looks at when searching for plug-ins.

I am actually not sure if this can be fixed. Eclipse stores a lot of information specific to compiler settings, etc. in each project (Check your .settings directory.) Sorry.

Would you mind trying this again? (I have deleted an old version of the plug-in from the update site. I am not sure if it makes a difference.)

  1. Delete any current plug-ins or features (in the eclipse/features folder)
    that are begin with org.eclipse.cdt.mcc18
  2. Install the plug-in from the update site.
  3. When prompted as to whether to restart, first say no.
  4. Then close eclipse.
  5. then restart eclipse with the option -clean.

For those interested, the reasons I’m making you do the hard work of restarting eclipse by yourself is that the plug-in and feature might be so small that eclipse interrupts the downloading process when it asks you to restart, because it thinks that it is already done downloading. When it restarts it interrupts the downloading process, and corrupts the plug-in.

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Hi Ben
Thanks again for the help. I followed the above steps to the tee but the result is the same - I still get the index out of bounds exception when I look at project properties, and can’t use the project to build for the FRC.

Bill

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Alright, since I can’t seem to get the actual update site to work. I’ll post the plug-in and feature I’m using in my own installation of eclipse. It’s in the attachment.
Copy the jar file to your plugins directory of your eclipse installation.
Copy the folder to your features direcotyr of your eclipse installation.
start eclipse with the option -clean

Important you need CDT 3.0 (and therefore Eclipse 3.1) or later for this plug-in to work.

Robotics Plugin.zip (5.21 KB)


Robotics Plugin.zip (5.21 KB)

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I had managed to miss this in the past, and it was the whole problem. I was running an earlier (2.x) version of cdt, which worked fine with the previous mcc18 plugin, so never suspected. Anyway, I’ve installed the new CDT then was able to install from your team254 eclipse update link.

Thanks for all the work and help.
Bill