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Install ez430 Chronos Control Center on Raspberry Pi

Hello everyone,

Apologies in advance if this is noddy question, or if this is in the wrong forum.

I have successfully installed the ez430-Chronos development environment on my win7 machine and have written a little C++ program that records the watch's orientation. I need to port this software over to a Raspberry Pi.

I have created a fresh Raspbian install (Raspberry Pi version of Debian wheezy), which boots up fine, but I cannot install the ez430-chronos Control Center, which I need to provide me with the libraries / drivers for my C++ project.

I have installed the required packages

apt-get install tcl8.5
apt-get install tk8.5
apt-get install xdotool

I have downloaded the latest ez430 linux software from the Ti site

root@raspberrypi:~# wget www.ti.com/lit/zip/slac388

unzipped slac388 to obtain the Chronos-Setup file

root@raspberrypi:~# unzip slac388

Made Chronos-Setup executable

root@raspberrypi:~# chmod +x Chronos-Setup

and here is where I get stuck- running the file

root@raspberrypi:~# ./Chronos-Setup
-bash: ./Chronos-Setup: cannot execute binary file

Which does not work, and produces the above error.

I cannot find anyone that seems to be having the same issue. I have followed several tutorials,

http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/10/07/configuring-ez430-chronos-wireless-development-tool-in-ubuntu-linux/

http://www.designspark.com/blog/using-the-ez430-chronos-with-a-raspberry-pi

and the slau292d.pdf ez430 user manual section 2.2.2 Linux® Installation

all to no avail. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Have I done something really daft?

Kind regards,

Richard

  • A quick follow up, I ran

    root@raspberrypi:~# file Chronos-Setup
    Chronos-Setup: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped

    which suggests to me this file could never execute on the Raspberry Pi's ARM architecture. Unfortunately my only other available linux machine is a Intel x64 Milk install. So I went through the same installation process and got stuck at exactly the same point

    root@nixmilk:~# ./Chronos-Setup

    except this time the command does nothing, not even produce an error. Most frustrating.

    If anyone can offer any suggestions how I can develop C++ software on the Pi that can read data from the ez430-chronos I will be most grateful.

  • Hi Richard

    I don't know I you could fix your issue but for your PC with intel x64 maybe this could be useful

    http://www.maketecheasier.com/run-32-bit-apps-in-64-bit-linux/

    Julio