I've been looking for some good component information as well. The
documentation didn't really point me in the right direction last time I
looked at it.

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On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 10:57 PM John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> I expect Andy in the UK has gone to bed but I'm on the west coast and it's
> only 7:30PM.  Maybe someone in North America or on the other side of the
> international date line can help?
>
> I've been trying to get to the point where I can compile a user component
> written in C.  Specifically, just for the exercise, the shuttle.c
> component.  With Andy's help I've installed the
> ./linuxcnc-uspace_2.8.1~shuttle~ec6f65e02_armhf.deb
>
> I've also used the github desktop to bring in the linuxcnc folder tree
> that has all the files and folders including this folder where the
> shuttle.c file lives.    You can see I'm working with a Pi4.
> \\Pi4linuxcnc\homepi\linuxcnc\src\hal\user_comps
> <file:///\\Pi4linuxcnc\homepi\linuxcnc\src\hal\user_comps>
>
> This doc talks about compiling .comp files but not much about the .c files.
>
> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/hal/comp.html#_compiling_userspace_components_outside_the_source_tree
> If I go up to the src folder there is a Makefile
>
> pi@linuxcnc:~/linuxcnc/src $ make
> Makefile:99: *** Makefile.inc must specify RTPREFIX and other variables.
> Stop.
>
> I have no idea which variables are needed and since this is on a 1GB Pi4 I
> really don't want to spend 6 hours compiling the entire OS when all I want
> is the single shuttle.c component.
>
> I suspect since the Submakefile in the user_comps folder includes:
>
> ifeq ($(HIDRAW_H_USABLE),yes)
> SHUTTLE_SRC = hal/user_comps/shuttle.c
> USERSRCS += $(SHUTTLE_SRC)
> ../bin/shuttle: $(call TOOBJS, $(SHUTTLE_SRC)) ../lib/liblinuxcnchal.so.0
>             $(ECHO) Linking $(notdir $@)
>             $(Q)$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^
> TARGETS += ../bin/shuttle
> Endif
>
>
> That somehow the main make command requires arguments like HIDRAW_H_USABLE?
>
> Anyone done this?  Perhaps can point me to a document that describes the
> process.   Not just the what but the how and why?
>
> Thanks
> John Dammeyer
>
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