[sdiy] Comparing two compiled hex files

[René Schmitz]

Hi Justin,

Could be linking against different versions of a (system) library. Or 
compiler / linker switches. (But you have shared your build system as 
well, right?) I'd also look for different compiler versions etc.

I.e. there can be differences in the dependencies, operating system, 
build environment, compiler.

Have you compared the binaries also directly? To rule out your bin/hex 
conversion process.

Best,
  René

On 19.06.2018 10:40, Justin Owen wrote:
> Hello - I hope this isn’t too OT...
> 
> I’ve recently set up a gitlab repo to give a few different devs access 
> to code assets. I’m not a coder - so this is all still new to me.
> 
> I thought a good proof of concept that the new, cloned repos on other 
> devs machines were working as expected would be for them to 
> compile/build a hex file from existing code and for me to compare their 
> file against the ‘master’ production file using an online utility e.g. 
> https://www.diffnow.com/
> 
> One of the compiled files comes up as a match using this method - but 
> the file I’ve built doesn’t. However, the file I’ve built uploads to a 
> test device in a couple of ways and seems to work just fine.
> 
> So now I’m trying to troubleshoot this.
> 
> Is my theory flawed? Is it possible that hex files from the same code 
> built on different machines/OS/other variables will work but won’t be an 
> exact file <-> file match?
> 
> Is there a reasonably simple way of isolating what the differences are - 
> currently I just have big chunks of hex and I have no way of knowing if 
> these are serious differences or something negligible.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> / Justin
> 
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