Hi Everyone, New to SourceForge, and new to FreeRTOS. I am trying to use the MingW simulator provided by the RTOS zip (under demo). Tried to run the simulation of blinky, the more basic demo, (main_blinky.c), by setting:

define mainCREATESIMPLEBLINKYDEMOONLY 1

Not sure why that text paste so huge … sorry. Anyways, I tried on 2 different machines, and when I only, simply set this definition to 1, it crash. I’m doing nothing else. NOTE: When this bit is szet to 0 (Test Demo), it runs perfectly. Is there something I am missing? System Info: – Windows 10 64 (fully updated) – Eclipse, build 2019-12 – FreeRTOS v10.1.1 – Eclipse set up with MingW – I can write C-code and compile and run just fine (not system related) Any help would be great, I’d like to start with the blinky as the test version is crazy as hell and I am not ready for that. [SEE ATTACHED IMAGE] – one one machine, the other just totally crash eclipse Thanks, -P

Apologies for this. It is because the trace recorder library is only initialized if mainCREATESIMPLEBLINKYDEMOONLY is set to 0, but still used even when it is set to 1. I have fixed this here: https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/FreeRTOS/Demo/WIN32-MingW/main.c#l145 by moving the trace recorder library initialisation up so it is initialized no matter the mainCREATESIMPLEBLINKYDEMOONLY setting.

Hi Richard, Thanks for your fast response my friend! In the comments it states the tracer is optional, but looks like it’s required. I’ll read on the tracer, there is a link. I love how well this code is commented. Thanks again

I made the change and it fixed the issue. [RESOLVED] (I don’t see the resolved/solutions button here}