I was thinking that I might run AXIS on Ubuntu in Parallels on the mac. That may make it easier...or not.... Thanks for the info, -Tom
On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Tom Easterday wrote: >> Has anyone gotten Axis to successfully run remotely connecting directly to >> EMC2 (not via VNC)? I want to run Axis on a remote MacBook and connect to >> an intel motherboard in my machine. Any pointers on where to start would be >> appreciated. >> > Look at the server.nml and client.nml files in the configs/common > directory. These are examples of how to set up the communications for > EMC2 to run with a remote GUI. I don't know if they're fully up to > date, you may want to look at emc.nml and make sure the buffer sizes > match that. > > To run AXIS on your mac, you'll need to do the following (at minimum): > 1) get the NML library to compile on the mac > 2) make sure you have valid versions of tcl/tk and python. > 3) get the libraries that AXIS uses to compile (these include > gcodemodule.cc, togl.c, and maybe others) > 4) tell AXIS that it shouldn't export HAL pins (since that doesn't work > over a network). I think you just have to set an environment variable > AXIS_NO_HAL=true or similar. > > I don't know if anyone's done this, but you might just try to compile > EMC2 for sim on your mac. You'll probably have to find and install a > bunch of stuff (like the compiler and loads of libraries), but if you > can get that to work, you're almost done. I believe that a sim install > of EMC2 can be used as a remote GUI, if you set up the ini and nml files > correctly. > > Good luck. > - Steve > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
