[En-Nut-Discussion] Newbie - NUTos questions.

[Harald Kipp]

Hi Jim,

At 08:47 29.09.2005 -0400, you wrote:

>The question(s):
>1)  MUST I use the NutOS in order to use the Ethernet Libraries?

The kernel provides four very basic functions:
1. Dynamic Memory
2. Events
3. Timers
4. Threads

3 and 4 use 2 and all of them use 1. The Ethernet driver
uses a receiver thread and timers.

>2)  Since our design will have about 5 different communication ports 
>(several RS232, ethernet, CAN, etc)
>      I would prefer to not use the Nut provided printf function and 
> continue to use the imagecraft provided printf function.
>      Is this OK?

Possibly a bit tricky, but it should work. Do not link
with libnutcrt and remove

#define printf      printf_M
#define puts        puts_M
#define sprintf     sprintf_M
#define vprintf     vprintf_M
#define scanf       scanf_M
#define gets        gets_M

from compiler.h or use

#undef printf
#undef puts
#undef sprintf
#undef vprintf
#undef scanf
#undef gets

in your application code. But be aware that the ImageCraft
lib doesn't provide fprintf.

You can always check the .mp file to see which library
parts were linked.

Harald