The software in this folder requires a compiler, which offers the pthread environment. Elder GCC ports for Windows typically don’t do. The makefiles are compatible with the mingw port of make, so mingw ports of the GCC suite will generally perform best.
The software in this folder can be compiled using MinGW-w64 GCC 8.1.0, downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/installer/mingw-w64-install.exe/download (24.2.2021). This URL has been reached by redirection from http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php (visited same day).
Both variants of the MinGW-w64 project’s GCC, 32 Bit (both, executables and produced binaries) and 64 Bit (both, executables and produced binaries), have been used to successfully build and run the code.
The software was successfully compiled using the TDM port of GCC, too. See https://jmeubank.github.io/tdm-gcc/download/ for a download of 32 Bit and 64 Bit GCC ports for Windows.
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Caution
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Using TDM’s GCC, the runtime performance of the built software was drastically worse in comparison to MinGW’S GCC. |
The timing of the threads is pretty good with MinGW’S GCC. Even the 1ms task performs not too bad and the 10ms and slower task nearly show real-time performance. (Use verbosity level INFO to see the timing statistics.) Using TDM, timing of all the tasks is poor and deadlines are permanently hurt, up to several hundred Milliseconds. This has the consequence of exorbitant numbers of CAN timing errors being reported.
The differences between the two compiler’s are likely because of their individual implementations of the pthreads environment.