From: scipio
Currently, the TinyOS Core Working Group supports TinyOS on two platforms: Cygwin (Windows) -and Linux. There have been some successful efforts to getting TinyOS environments working -on Mac OSX, but OSX is not supported by the Core WG.
+If you are running a version of Linux that supports Debian packages, then +
If you are running a version of Linux that supports Debian packages, then you may want to use the TinyOS package repository. There is a story on www.tinyos.net that describes how to use it. If you do this, then you do not have to install the instructions here, except that you will need to check - that your environment is set up correctly (the final step)
+ that your environment is set up correctly (the end of step 5 in + the manual installation. + +Currently, the TinyOS Core Working Group supports TinyOS on two platforms: Cygwin (Windows) +and Linux. There have been some successful efforts to getting TinyOS environments working +on Mac OSX, but OSX is not supported by the Core WG.
+Installing a TinyOS enviromnent has five basic steps; Windows requires an extra step, installing Cygwin, which is a UNIX-like environment. The steps are: