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NQC Linux Support - USB and TCP
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
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Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:45:38 GMT
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For those interested, I have posted a patch to SourceForge for NQC at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2639763&group_id=68600&atid=521778 .
This patch includes several changes, most of which are related to Linux,
though portions may be of use to other platforms.
* Removed the dependency of <LegoUSB/legousbtower.h> when building with USB
support for Linux
* Set some properties so that they can be set from the "make" command line
instead of modifying the Makefile, facilitating easier package creation
(including DEFAULT_SERIAL_NAME and DEFAULT_USB_NAME).
* Now that the Lego USB tower driver is included in the kernel, the device
is typically either /dev/legousbtower0 or /dev/usb/legousbtower0. The code
files have been updated to reflect these names.
* If the NQC "-S" argument is in the format "usb[:<device>]" (e.g.
usb:/dev/lego0), the program will use /dev/lego0 as the USB device; if the
"-S" argument is simply "usb" then the program will check for the presence
of DEFAULT_USB_NAME, /dev/legousbtower0, or /dev/usb/legousbtower
* A "tcp" option has been added as an option to the "-S" argument,
performing communication over a TCP connection instead of a serial or USB IR
device. This facilitates the use of NQC with programs such as BrickEmu, an
RCX emulator (see http://hoenicke.ath.cx/rcx/brickemu.html ). The full
option format is "tcp[:<host>[:<port>]]" If port is not provided, the
program will default to the "magic" Lego port of 50637, and if the host is
not provided, the program will default to localhost.
I hope that some of this might be useful for a future release. If there is
a future release, I would also like to propose that the source archive be
packaged more GNU-style, in that the root of the archive would only contain
a single folder named in the format $PACKAGE-$VERSION (e.g. nqc-3.1r7). All
the source content would then be under this folder, easing some package
management tasks for certain distributions.
Thank you,
Matthew
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: NQC Linux Patches
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| I have updated the earlier NQC patch and uploaded two additional patches. Patch 1 - Update of the NQC USB and TCP Patch (URL) * Updated for compatibility with gcc 4.4.x * Removed the DESTDIR patch for the Makefile (moved to another patch) Patch 2 - (...) (15 years ago, 7-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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