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 Hmmmmm must be loosing it, forgot about stdin/out! I've also used CUnit before and it's nice an easy and small. Problem is I've only 500 bytes code space left on the micro-controller so by the time CUnit gone in with the various tests I'm gonna run of room. I have to keep the RS232 driver in as well as it's the only way to talk to the controller. Python + pyserial enables me to run the tests with the C compiled and run on the PC as well as compiled to run on the micro-controller. Python is a great environment for doing this sort of thing and, as has been mentioned, a GUI can be added easily (time permitting). Thanks again all, John On 8 Nov 2013, at 15:00, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2013-11-08, John Pote <johnhp...@o2.co.uk> 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 wrapper round the 'C' >> functions. >> >> On the PC I can use Python's unit test library module and logging to >> create a nice and easy to use environment (I like Python). So my >> question is how to communicate from Python to the C module on the PC. >> What I'd like is simplicity and ease of setting up. All I can think >> of myself is to use sockets. > > Sockets are nice and simple. Depending on what you're doing, > stdin/stdout may be even simpler. > > For the RS232 part of the problem, don't forget about pyserial: > > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html > >> Any ideas on how to do this would be gratefully appreciated. >> >> 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? > > I've occasionaly used mingw (which _is_ gcc), and it worked well. > Cygwin (also gcc) works well, but it's a bit more involved. > > I do all my embedded development on a Linux host. I find Linux to be > far more suitable for the task -- the entire Unix system basically > evolved as a software development platform. I've yet to figure out > what MS-Windows is suited for other than lining Bill Gates' pockets. > > Before Linux, I used Solaris/SunOS, and before that I used Unix V7. > Everytime I've been involved in a Microsoft-hosted embedded > development project, I just end up walking a way afterwards shaking my > head in puzzlement. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm having a > at tax-deductible experience! > gmail.com I need an energy crunch!! > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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