Mac Osx - Mpide "fatal Error Sys\attribs.h: No Such File Or Directory...

[LariSan]

Using the PmodOLED and the chipKIT Cmod--
I was able to make the file work on my work-Windows PC

I downloaded the newest file from the webpage (thanks to previous post:) and got the library into my sketchbook folder.

However, when I tried to compile on my home MacBook, I kept getting this error: 
 

:26: fatal error: sysattribs.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

 
Uninstall, reinstall MPIDE. 
Delete all libraries. 
Reinstall it again.
 
Then, went to the MPIDE Icon, held down Control+ click and went to "Show Package Contents" 

Which then I navigated to Contents->MacOSX>Resources>Java>Hardware>pic32>compiler>pic32-tools>include>sys
 
 Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.39.48 PM by laraswanland, on Flickr
 
... and verified that the file was there.

Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.41.55 PM by laraswanland, on Flickr

...

I reopened MPIDE
Opened the OLED Demo Example
Hit Verify...

Same irritating error.

So I grabbed the sysattribs.h:
and put it into my search bar.

and came up with the file OLEDDriver.cpp
that had it directly referenced.

Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.34.08 PM by laraswanland, on Flickr
...

Opened the file up +
found sysattribs.h and it was oddly the only include with a directory slash...
<sysattribs.h>

Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.32.36 PM by laraswanland, on Flickr

Tried a few things, but it turns out if you switch the direction of the slash... and hit save...
the file will compile.

<sys/attribs.h>

 

Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.33.12 PM by laraswanland, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.32.49 PM by laraswanland, on Flickr
 

 

So change the <sysattribs.h> to 

<sys/attribs.h>

 

 

 

My thoughts is that there may be a weird syntax that Windows uses that can use the forward-slash, but Mac (and maybe Linux) can't use it?

Is this something other people have noticed?

[logansam]

Yes, Unix (mac, linux) uses / and windows uses . I noticed that in some other older libraries as well. Some software tolerates the difference better than others, MPIDE does not seem to handle it very well. I haven't tried it yet but I'm interested to see if you changed the code to forward slashes and tried compiling it on windows and see if you get the same error.

[JColvin]

I just tried the windows version of that library with both slash directions and MPIDE seems to be happy with either direction.

[JColvin]

Another fix that you could probably do is just get rid of the sys/ from the #include entirely, so that you only have the line

#include <attribs.h>

 

There only is one "attribs.h" file in all of MPIDE that I can find on my windows computer, and the OLED demo compiled just fine without the sys/, so I'm curious as to why the sys/ (or sys) was there in the first place. 

[LariSan]

I did try that but then it wouldn't find the file without the sys (funny because it is an #include)

Changing the direction was the only thing that worked on my Mac.

Linux users tbd...