qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Hi, I have problem getting SourceBoost ide running. Executing ide.exe brings up splash screen, then it disappears and ide doesn't show up. However in windows task manager under processes tab it shows that ide.exe is running (CPU: 00, Memory: 5156 KB). Strange. What could be the reason? System: Pentium III 500MHz, Windows XP Pro but no Service Packs. Could this (no SP) affect it? By the way. It doesn't work on my laptop(Celeron 400, WinXP Pro, no SP also) too . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 It might be not enough memory problem. How much memory is installed on your computer? Regards, Pavel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 I have 256MB of memory. It should be enough I think. Installed SP2 but ide.exe still doesn't work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Can you run boostc.pic16.exe compiler from command line? There also were couple of cases when some antivirus software somehow collided with SourceBoost. Do you have antivirus installed? Regards, Pavel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 boostc.pic16.exe runs and compiles into .obj fine. I have no antivirus software installed. I got it running once somehow (changed sourceboost folder to read-only) but it doesn't work when i try again. No matter if I run it directly from ide.exe or through .__c file. Does SourceBoost ide need some services to be running, cause i have a bunch of them disabled? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 ...Does SourceBoost ide need some services to be running, cause i have a bunch of them disabled?... No SourceBoost doesn't use any services or anything special. It just should run after the installation. We had couple of similar reports when users weren't able to start SourceBoost but we don't know what exactly the problem is Regards, Pavel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Guess I'll have to use only the command line tools then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Try to remove the plugin DLLs from the SourceBoost installation directory. These files are: bcd.dll button.dll buttonblock.dll dvm.dll i2ceprom.dll lcd.dll led.dll ledblock.dll siggen.dll speedtest.dll stimuli.dll stopwatch.dll varpsu.dll (if you haven't installed the extra plugin package you won't have all of these files in your SourceBoost installation directory). Let me know if this helped. Regards, Pavel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Yes and no. When I removed those DLLs and run the program it started ok. When I closed it to try to open again, it didn't start and still doesn't start Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 But how can I compile .c file into .hex file using command line? Boostc.pic16.exe generates .obj file which seems to not be the machine code yet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 But how can I compile .c file into .hex file using command line? Boostc.pic16.exe generates .obj file which seems to not be the machine code yet? boostc compiles .c -> .obj boostlink links .c/.lib -> .hex Regards, Pavel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qratman 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2005 Ah yep, there's the boostc.html doc which i didn't look at first. Now linked to hex successfully. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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