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How Do You Get C onto a BeagleBone AI?

dubbie

Could anyone give me a quick pointer as to where to look for information on how to transfer a C programme to the BeagleBone AI and then compile it and run it?

 

I have a C programme compiled in Microsoft that I wish to transfer to a BeagleBone AI. I have had a quick look online and Element14 and so far I have not found any information about this. I am not a Linux user so this may be easy and obvious but when you don't know something it always seems hard. The C programme implements an Artificial Neural Network and I want to use it with my LDR Camera as part of the Vision Thing Project14. Time is running out.

 

Dubbie

  • in reply to Sean_Miller

    I tried Java once when it first came out. I wanted an internet camera as well to see when the coffee was ready. It was supposed to be the answer to all my problems with controlling stuff. Java and I just didn't get on. All I wanted to do was turn a LED on and off. Even when I was given a working programme I still couldn't get it work. I'll stick with C unless Python is any good.

     

    Dubbie

  • in reply to dubbie

    I remember learning C back around 95 with a Sams Teach Yourself in 21 days book.  It was such a major shift for me from BASIC.  I remember absolutely struggling to learn it.  Once JAVA came out and it handled strings and memory so much better, I thought - I'm glad I'll never need C again.

     

    25 years later, the microcontroller begins to roam the earth and now I program in C more than anything.  Funny how that can happen.

     

    -Sean

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    Jan,

     

    Debug in real-time. Is that a real thing? I think the only time I tried debugging in real time was with an 8086 emulator with associated logic analyser and it was so long ago I think dinosaurs stilled roamed the earth. I have tended to rely on pure brain power and thinking when debugging which stems from when I was studying and it took 30 minutes or more to make a change to a programme. You just had to work out what the problem was before making an edit, rather than the try it and see what happens approach - when editing a programme and re-running it takes only a few seconds. Still having said that I spent hours yesterday trying to work out why a C programme wasn't compiling, deleting all comments, deleting all unnecessary code and eventually resorted to commenting out statement by statement until  I realised I had accidentally deleted the last close bracket ( } ) from the main loop. C error messages can be so unhelpful at times.

     

    Dubbie

  • in reply to dubbie

    It intimidated me at first.  After a bit I quickly realized the efficiency of it, particularly for running the examples.  It also sustains your session between visits.  So, Cloud9 has become the only way I develop with the BBAI.

     

    See ya,

    Sean

  • in reply to dubbie

      wrote:

     

    I think this approach would have to be a last resort for me, as it looks fairly complicated.

     

    Dubbie

    .... but you can debug image real time