Mac support

Question

Mac support

erikkaplun opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Can't say Macs are common in the DIY landscape (maybe they are maybe no, I don't know) but I'm on one so I'm opening this ticket to propose adding OS X support, in addition to Windows, and the already I guess planned Linux support.

Is this something one could hope for? Or completely out of the scope of this project?

Marcel Stör · Answer 1 · Sat Nov 21 2015 07:04:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The README has been saying

We are working on next version and will use QT framework. It will be cross platform and open source.

for nearly a year now 😉. So, no, not completely out of the scope.

Erik Kaplun · Answer 2 · Sat Nov 21 2015 10:09:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Aha, that's both good and slightly bad news at the same time, but more good I think :)

pnewb · Answer 3 · Sat Jan 09 2016 22:22:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Macs are pretty common out here. Count this as one more vote for bumping priority on mac support.

Jon Pellant · Answer 4 · Tue Feb 09 2016 03:26:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Macs are actually good hacker platforms in many ways better than Win. It is UNIX underneath so all sorts of open source stuff works on it. It natively supports connecting to DCE/DTEs (via 'screen') really easy.

So I second the supporting of Mac... Where is the Qt version?

Heiko W. Rupp · Answer 5 · Thu Feb 18 2016 15:34:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Did anyone try to use some Pascal for OSX (if such a thing exists)?

Marcel Stör · Answer 6 · Thu Feb 18 2016 15:40:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I for myself don't miss the OS X support as I use esptool.py (on Mac). Side note: on http://nodemcu-build.com/ I see 68% Win, 13% Linux and 12% OS X.

Heiko W. Rupp · Answer 7 · Thu Feb 18 2016 15:46:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On 18 Feb 2016, at 8:40, Marcel Stör wrote: I for myself don't miss the OS X support as I use esptool.py (on Mac). Side note: on http://nodemcu-build.com/ I see 68% Win, 13% Linux and 12% OS X.

I am using esptool myself - but apparently the flasher knows all the secrets of burning additional .bin files at various addresses like hinted at: https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware#files-to-burn-to-the-flash " Also, in some special circumstances, you may need to flash blank.bin or esp_init_data_default.bin to various addresses on the flash (depending on flash size and type). " And I've read that to go from 0.9.5 to something > 1.0 you have to flash those .bin files

Marcel Stör · Answer 8 · Thu Feb 18 2016 15:49:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yep, I look forward to the firmware dev branch being merged back to master because we've got much better documentation now: http://nodemcu.readthedocs.org/en/dev/en/flash/

Heiko W. Rupp · Answer 9 · Thu Feb 18 2016 16:09:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On 18 Feb 2016, at 8:49, Marcel Stör wrote: Yes, http://nodemcu.readthedocs.org/en/dev/en/flash/#upgrading-from-sdk-09x-firmware is the other reference - which talks about "depending on flash size". I just saw revisiting my Huzzah ESP, that this has 4MB of flash according to `node.info()` So I guess it may be an ESP-12E internally.

Robi · Answer 10 · Sat Feb 16 2019 17:55:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nov 2015 Today Feb 2019
Any news about the OS X support

Marcel Stör · Answer 11 · Sat Feb 16 2019 18:17:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Just use https://github.com/marcelstoer/nodemcu-pyflasher (from yours truly)