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ialex.ryan
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Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:33 pm Posts: 6
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 Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
Hey there!
Has anybody had any luck using Wine (or any program based on it, like PlayOnMac) to run RobotC for Mindstorms on a Unix-based platform? Almost all of our dev team have Macs, and it's a major hindrance to our work to be restricted to working on the odd Windows-based computer that we can get access to.
Thanks so much for your advice! Cheers, Alex
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mightor
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Joined: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:14 am Posts: 3654 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
You could use VirtualBox on both the Linux and Mac machines and run Windows in there. VMWare Player works very nicely as well, but only on Linux (and Windows).
- Xander
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Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:06 am |
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ialex.ryan
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Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:33 pm Posts: 6
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
Hi Xander,
Thanks again for the reply. I've considered both of those options (as well as Boot Camp) and the main issue we run in to there is the requirement to purchase lots of expensive Windows licenses, as well as the considerable time cost of starting a virtual machine or rebooting every time someone wants to add a line of code.
Which is why I had high hopes for Wine...although with the advanced USB communication requirements of RobotC I don't know how well that would work out.
Cheers, Alex
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mightor
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
Boot time is negligible if you just suspend the virtual machine, you're talking about 10-20 seconds max. If your time is free then spending hours upon hours trying to make ROBOTC work in Wine might be an idea, if your time is valuable, then spending a bit of money on a Windows license may not be such a bad investment  Cost is very relative. Alternatively, set up a Windows box and use PC Anywhere or some other form of Terminal Service such as VNC or RDP. - Xander
_________________| Professional Conduit of Reasonableness| (Title bestowed upon on the 8th day of November, 2013) | My Blog: I'd Rather Be Building Robots| ROBOTC 3rd Party Driver Suite: [ Project Page]
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MikeJMcFarlane
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Joined: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:43 am Posts: 47
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
I couldn't get Virtual Box to run so well on my Mac, but VMWare Fusion runs no problem. Still going to cost you, but I got a new version of Fusion recently with 20% using 'ws9beta20' but I just checked and it is only valid till Sep 14th. I've been playing with Win 8 and I saw an article the other day that MS will be offering upgrades from as far back as XP for about £40/license. I got my original XP license from ebay, some form of OEM, seemed legit. Still about £70/user though.
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tunasushi
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Joined: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:43 pm Posts: 1
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
Been trying to get RobotC to work, so far I can load the application and create/edit code, but I can't download it onto my robot. I suspect this is because Wine lacks USB driver support. I just write the code on a Mac, then transfer it to a pc to download it when i'm finished.
-Leo
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Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:46 pm |
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ialex.ryan
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Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:33 pm Posts: 6
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
That's the same conclusion that I've come to. The system as we have it now is to just write code wherever, in whatever text editor, and then copy it to a PC and use RobotC to download the code to the NXT brick. Github actually works really well for this sort of collaborative syncing, as we're finding. -Alex
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NeXT-Generation
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Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:13 pm Posts: 630 Location: If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
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 Re: Running RobotC on Mac or Linux using Wine.
Question: Why don't you just write the code on the PC since you have one?
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