where are the .tns files?

[cuj]

I would like to run linux on my calculator, but I couldn't seem to find the .tns files, so it would be greatly appreciated if anyone tells me where are the .tns files, thanks.

[duvallj]

@IIWare It looks like you'll need to compile the code yourself. See https://hackspire.org/index.php/C_and_assembly_development_introduction for how to install the Ndless toolchain, and then you should just be able to run make all in the root directory of this project.

[cuj]

@duvallj sorry I haven't responded in a while, anyways when I ran make all in macOS Big sur 11.0 (20A5374i) here's the error I got:

MacBook-Pro:nspire-linux-loader2 macbookair$ make all
date: illegal option -- -
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
nspire-gcc -DBUILD_DATE="\"\"" -DGIT_COMMIT="\"ca31ca0\"" -mcpu=arm926ej-s -Os -nostdlib -Wall -Werror -marm -Ilibfdt/ -c atag.c -o atag.o
/bin/sh: nspire-gcc: command not found
make: *** [atag.o] Error 127

if macOS big sur is incompatible to make, then which other mac/linux version can I use to run make all? thanks.

[duvallj]

@cuj From the error log, it looks like you didn't install the ndless toolchain properly (/bin/sh: nspire-gcc: command not found == nspire-gcc, the tool used to compile programs for the nspire, is not on your $PATH). I have not used macOS Big Sur to compile the Ndless toolchain before, but you should be able to install all the dependencies with brew and follow https://hackspire.org/index.php/C_and_assembly_development_introduction to get the toolchain installed.

[cuj]

@duvallj i've installed nspire-gcc successfully, however I ran into another error when I did make all in the root directory of the linux loader source code, there's an error /bin/sh: genzehn: command not found also brew install genzehn didn't work, so can you please tell me how to install genzehn or at least tell me how to fix the issue? thanks.

[duvallj]

@cuj genzehn (and another program you will need, make-prg) are Ndless SDKprograms used to take an ELF executable and turn it into a .tns executable. Searching for genzehn in the Ndless SDK gives this folder. If you run make all in there it should install genzehn and make-prg in the same bin path as the nspire-gcc tool. If you get stuck again, please try a bit harder to work through it yourself.