From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,78cc2be3bd40e13,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.202.168 with SMTP id kj8mr4280121pbc.1.1333132542663; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Path: z9ni19563pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jfgallant@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Alsys 5.3 on MS DOS 6.22 in VMWare? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4176570.260.1333132542299.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbyw15> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.107.233.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1333132542 27440 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2012 18:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.107.233.124; posting-account=90zx8woAAABTBcB9TxVzRAib3DX3Nn-X User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-03-30T11:35:42-07:00 List-Id: I'm seeing some discussion about the old Alsys compiler and VMWare on this = group, but not both at the same time, so I'll risk asking... We have this older (... much... older...) product that we need to support. = It is an embedded 80386 target. The application is in Ada 83, and was compi= led with the Alsys compiler.=20 Up to this point our development environment consists of a (couple of) PC r= unning MS-DOS 6.22 with the Alsys 5.3.1 compiler. Connection to the target = (for flashing and debugging) is via a serial (yes, that's RS-232) link. We're attempting to migrate this environment to more modern host platform, = but must continue with the old Alsys compiler because of dependencies on th= e bootloader and runtime environment in the target. So the question is: has anyone been successful in running the Alsys 80386 c= ross-compiler in a VMWare machine? Specifically: - Alsys v5.3.1 (I believe it dates back to 1993); - host O/S is MS-DOS 6.22; - cross compiling to an 80386 embedded platform in protected mode (i.e. 32-= bit=20 environment) - VMWare player 3.1.5 on WinXP; The compiler works fine, and indeed the binaries that come out of it are va= lid and run on the platform. What doesn't work is the AdaPROBE debugger.=20 The probe communicates with the target through a virtual COM port in the VM= , which is mapped to a physical COM port on the host, which is in turn conn= ected to the target via standard DB9 cable. Using a terminal program and pr= otocol analyzer, I compared the probe/target handshake between the legacy h= ost and target, and virtual host and target. Both streams are identical. Ho= wever when running in the VM, AdaPROBE refuses to continue further with the= debug session, and exits with the following error: "The kernel version on = the target is not correct". To be clear, AdaPROBE running on the legacy hos= t has no trouble at all interfacing with the target... I've tried everything I could think of and am running out of ideas. Any hel= p appreciated. JF.