arduino on macbook pro with bootcamp windows

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hello,

I am very new to the arduino world. I received my arduino duemilanove ATmega328 some days ago.
I hava a new macbook pro, core2duo 3.06 ghz and I am running windows via bootcamp. the arduino software version is 0017.

I can program the arduino in osx, everything is fine. but since I run windows, I can select the board and the serial port, but I get a lot of error messages when I want to upload any script to the board like "error: stray '\16' in program".
I searched the web and I heard about the problem that arduino might have with the latest mac processors...

I should be lucky that it works under osx, but I need it in windows for connecting with rhinoceros and grasshopper...

can anyone help me?

2

Can you post your code?

What is highlighted in the IDE when the error is reported?

What version of Windows are you running under bootcamp?

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my code is just the simple blink-tutorial:

*int ledPin = 13; *
*void setup() { *

  • pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); *
    }
    *void loop() *
    {
  • digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); *
  • delay(1000); *
  • digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); *
  • delay(1000); *
    }

and this is the error message:

C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\5' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\26' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\7' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\2' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or 'attribute' before 'OS'
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\2' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\16' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\260' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\2' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\16' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\342' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\1' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\36' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\232' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\311' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\377' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\16' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\342' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\230' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '&' token
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\1' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\230' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\25' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1:158: error: invalid suffix "b1caae7" on integer constant
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before numeric constant
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '|' token
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\1' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\1' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\36' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\1' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\1' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\36' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\34' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\36' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\377' in program
C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c:1: error: stray '\377' in program

the windows version I am running is XP professional, 2002, Service Pack 2.

the same code runs on osx perfectly...

4

I installed the board on another windows computer and it works... seems that arduino has any problem with mac hardware.

5

It's not the board. It appears that the problem is a corrupt install of the Arduino IDE. Did you look at the file that the compiler is complaining about?

C:\arduino\hardware\cores\arduino._pins_arduino.c

6

I reinstalled the 0017 version, same problem. I installed 0016, it didn`t even start. so again 0017, I looked at this file and it is there twice.
any ideas?

7

I had the same exact problem. I downloaded the windows version of the arduino software on my MAC because my windows machine wasn't hooked up to the internet at the time. I then transfered it to the windows machine with a usb flash drive. I got the same error message as you. I tried the same procedure a few times, always with the same result.

I then got the internet working again on my windows machine and directly downloaded the software to it. For some reason that worked. I can't imagine why it wouldn't have worked the other way. I'm not enough of a computer guru to speculate what my MAC might be doing to the windows files in a straight download. All I know is that a direct down load to windows solved the problem. I'm not sure if this will work for you with bootcamp, but it might be worth a shot.

Cheers.

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Hi domaniac,

it looks like you have different character encodings of the source files (e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16, MBCS) and what the compiler expects.

Can you please create a new sketch under Windows and copy the code from your own posting (copy from the screen out of the browser window, NOT using file copy!). Does this work?

MikeT

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thank you flancrest, I downloaded the software directly from windows and it runs! strange... :-?

so thank you all for your help... now that it works I will be posting some new problems soon for sure...