(NewB)How to Run Threadx ?

Again, learn first to write readable English. If you have got the sources, ask your vendor for help.

He/she demonstrated the ability to write readable English in the previous thread after being chastised for similar wanker-speak.

Now he/she is demonstrating a propensity for laziness, so no help will be coming from me at least (not that anybody cares, of course).

-- Dan Henry

I have no experience with ThreadX, but all of the realtime\embedded OS packages I have purchased at my job, always came with, or came with the option for the necessary tools: compilers, linkers, debuggers, etc. If you genuinely bought this package and it didn't come with or you weren't offered any of those tools I would say you got screwed and go complain to the vendor. If on the other hand, you stole\pirated a copy of the OS source, go try and figure it out for yourself, because you will get very very little support from this group of mostly professionals(Ha! Did I say that?) under those circumstances. And as all of the other responses have indicated, stop writing with with that teenie-bopper-www-I-can't-spell-gobbledy-gook (did I spell that right?) God help the soul that has to read your documentation. PLSSSSSSSSSSSSS STOPPPPPPPPP! (Or should that read PPPPPLS STTTTTTTTTOP?)

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com said

It's been pointed out to you, I'll try again on the chance you don't really understand because of a cultural difference. You managed to communicate better earlier, however, so I don't really think that's the case.

No one is going to take you seriously until you show an effort to completely spell out words and drop the teenager text-messaging style of communicating. You're working in a professional world and you're asking professionals for help.

Emails from those who struggle with English are always accepted with understanding, but your messages give the impression of laziness. If someone can't make the effort to even type out a whole sentence, they come across as wanting others to do their work for them. Is that the case?

Casey

Hai All My deepest apologies. Am really sorry.Have always thought that any idea was more important than the method or way used to convey it. Trust me,do u people know how much marks i used to loose in exams because i write like this. Only if we could write in mathematics.Anyway,its high time i change. Writing this is going to be real difficult.Anyway, Thanks a LOT.

The Threadx source in genuine. Honest. Why should i go for a pirated RTOS when My dear Linux is around the corner offering the best. Its just that the company (the place where i work) has headquaters in US. PM has asked me to learn about Threadx. Now he has just given the source. I dont know if he has received any tools with it whatsoever. I assume that he hasnt ,otherwise i would nt be going through all this trouble. Now, he might get in touch with ExpressLogic. But I cant wait,can i.

The main problem is that threadx doesnt offer any tool or compiler of their own. Its all third party list. You have many who supports Threadx. But, before i advise someone to buy such a tool ,i would love to try it out myself. Thats why i am searching for an evaluation version. And I find it very hard to find one with proper threadx support. These third party tools offers support for a lot of other things too. So finding one to compile threadx is difficult.Heres what i found out.

METAWARE: They promised me an evaluation license. But never kept their word.

METROWORKS: Threadx says that we could use codewarrior for it. But when i downloaded their evaluation version for coldfire , i wasnt able to find any option for threadx.

IAR: This has the best result so faar. Very good people. They keep their word. They sent me an evaluation version. But now i find that i need the threadx.lib to compile it.

I know , the best choice is to just wait for my PM to get to talk with ExpressLogic and finally come up with a tool. But thats gointo take some time.

Anyway, Could someone please help. Isnt thr anyway i could get to run threadx on my 386 machine.The threadx source i have is that which supports 386.

I know i could do that with Linux kernel source. So i was just thinking if its possible with threadx too. Thankx a LOT. and Merry Christmas.

I have always found that the support from Expresslogic is very good and fast, definitely at least as fast as usenet and probably more accurate. You have already spent over a week here without getting what you need, so email them and try.

Threadx is not a program, it is a library and I can see no real reason why a compiler manufacturer should need to "support" ThreadX any more than any other C source code. There may be enhancements to the debugger so that it can understand about threads and tasks but that's not necessary.

In the other hand, the source code for ThreadX does need to know about the compiler because there are some assembly files there and the procedure call code may change between compilers. Also when handling interrupts and context switches it needs to know a little about how the compiler arranges some things. These changes are minor but critical - so using the source code with the wrong tool, or even the wrong version of the right tool has a good chance of failing.

Yet another reason to contact Expresslogic, they can tell you what tool the system is intended to be used with.

As I suggested before, get a copy of the book "Real-Time Enbedded Multithreading : Using ThreadX and ARM" by Edward Lamie. It will tell you what ThreadX is and how it works and although it discusses the ARM hardware, there isn't a lot of hardware specific stuff and you could easily see how it applies to other CPU's. It also has a CD with a demo version of ThreadX that runs under Windows with the Microsoft compiler so you will be able to play. I think that Amazon has it, otherwise Google for it.

Stan Katz