Re: Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread John Pote
Thanks everyone for the advice, some good ideas to keep me busy. Will try and look at over weekend/next week as tied up the rest of today. I've used pyserial several times - many thanks to Chris Liechti for that module Hm must be loosing it, forgot about stdin/out! I've also used CUnit bef

Re: Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 8 November 2013 14:23, John Pote wrote: > Hi all, > > I have the task of testing some embedded 'C' code for a small > micro-controller. Thought it would be a good idea to test it on the PC first > to make sure the algorithm is correct then perhaps test it on the controller > via RS232 and an

Re: Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-11-08, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 8 November 2013 14:23, John Pote wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have the task of testing some embedded 'C' code for a small >> micro-controller. Thought it would be a good idea to test it on the >> PC first to make sure the algorithm is correct then perhaps te

Re: Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-11-08, John Pote wrote: > Hi all, > > I have the task of testing some embedded 'C' code for a small > micro-controller. Thought it would be a good idea to test it on the > PC first to make sure the algorithm is correct then perhaps test it > on the controller via RS232 and an appropriate w

Re: Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 08/11/2013 14:23, John Pote wrote: Hi all, Also as I don't have any microsoft offerings of a C compiler any suggestions as to a suitable C compiler for a PC appreciated as well. llvm? mingw? gcc? Thanks a lot everyone, John Visual Express C++ is fine, provided that its version matches yo

Re: Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread Mark Barton
On 11/8/13 9:23 AM, John Pote wrote: Hi all, I have the task of testing some embedded 'C' code for a small micro-controller. Thought it would be a good idea to test it on the PC first to make sure the algorithm is correct then perhaps test it on the controller via RS232 and an appropriate wra

Talking to a 'C' program

2013-11-08 Thread John Pote
Hi all, I have the task of testing some embedded 'C' code for a small micro-controller. Thought it would be a good idea to test it on the PC first to make sure the algorithm is correct then perhaps test it on the controller via RS232 and an appropriate wrapper round the 'C' functions. On the P