To install TinyOS (mostly) from source code (e.g., if you can't use the
provided RPMs), do the following:

A) REMOVE ALL TRACES OF PREVIOUS TOOLS (they will only cause problems), i.e.
   remove:
   - cygwin (on Windows) (but don't destroy your own files!!!)
   - avr-gcc, avr-binutils, avr-libc (possibly the WinAVR package, possible
     some rpms)
   - previous versions of nesC
   - previous versions of uisp
   - previous tinyos installs (again, don't desttou your work ;-))

B) Follow the installation directions for Windows and Linux below.

On Windows (Win 2k and XP):

- download and install Sun's 1.4 JDK, from http://java.sun.com
- download our cygwin package from 
  http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/tools/windows/tinyos-cygwin-1.1.zip
  unzip this, and run the install.bat script
- download Sun's javax.comm package from 
  http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/
  and install it as follows (instructions for a cygwin shell), assuming
  you install JDK in c:\Program Files\jdk:
    unzip javacomm20-win32.zip
    cd commapi
    cp win32com.dll "c:\Program Files\jdk\jre\bin"
    chmod 755 "c:\Program Files\jdk\jre\bin\win32com.dll"
    cp comm.jar "c:\Program Files\jdk\jre\lib\ext"
    cp javax.comm.properties "c:\Program Files\jdk\jre\lib"
  
- download graphviz from
  http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/tools/windows/graphviz-1.10.exe
  and install it by executing it

- proceed to the common source part

On Linux:

- download and install IBMs 1.4 JDK and javax.comm rpms,
  currently at https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p
  (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ is a good starting point to
   find this)
  select the IBM SDK for 32-bit xSeries (Intel compatible)
  you will have to register
  download the IBMJava2-SDK and IBMJava2-JAVACOMM rpms, and install them

- You should probably also change the permissions on /dev/ttyS<n> to 666
  for all serial ports that you will use, and on /dev/parport0 if you're
  programming via the parallel port. This will allow you to access these
  devices, and hence run uisp and SerialForwarder, as a normal user.

- proceed to the common source part



Common Installation (Linux and Windows)

- Compile and install tools: Download the contents of the 
    http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/tools/source/
  directory. Extract all the tarballs there. You should have versions of
  avarice, binutils, gcc, insight (aka gdb) and avr-libc.

  You need to ensure that you have libbfd.a and libiberty.a. If you can't
  find them (normally in /usr/lib), find the package that contains them
  and install it (on debian, it's binutils-dev, on Redhat it's binutils 
  which you will have if you're attempting to compile anything...).

  For each of these tools, except avarice and avr-libc, cd into the directory
  and execute the <toolname>.conf file from the download directory, then do
    make
    make install # (On Linux, do this as root)

  For avr-libc, you should execute the avr-libc*.conf script, then
    cd build
    make
    make install # (On Linux, do this as root)

  Before compiling avarice, you should remove the following files (they may
  cause problems with avarice, and probably other stuff too...):
    /usr/local/lib/libiberty.a
    /usr/local/lib/libmmalloc.a
  Once this is done, compile and install avarice like you did the other tools.

- Compile and install nesC, and the TinyOS tools: Download nesC and TinyOS from
    http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/tinyos/source/
  directory. Extract the tinyos tarball where you wish tinyos to live,
  extract the nesC tarball inside the newly extracted tinyos-1.x directory.
  Alternately, you can fetch the tinyos-1.x tree from CVS on sourceforge (see
  install-cvs.txt for details).

  Compile nesC with:
    cd <nesc directory>
    ./configure
    make
    make install # (On Linux, do this as root)

 Then, change back to the tinyos-1.x directory, and install the tinyos tools:
    make 
    make install # (On Linux, do this as root)

 If you use bash, copy the tinyos-1.x/tools/scripts/tinyos.sh.in to
 /etc/profile.d/tinyos.sh, and edit to contain the correct value for TOSROOT
 (this assumes your setup runs the scripts in /etc/profile.d, if not, place
 the contents of tinyos.sh in your shell startup scripts)

 If you use tcsh, edit your startup scripts to do the same things as tinyos.sh
 does for bash.

- Finally, compile the java tools: first, create a new shell (to get the
  correct environment), then change to the tinyos-1.x directory, and do:
    cd tools/java
    make