Re: [LUG] Kylix

On 13 October 2011 11:39, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, tom wrote:

I recently posted about ESDAC and tried to get the software running but the libraries it required have been superceded.

It works fine for me under Linux.

I did have to do one thing though - they linked it against a specific version of the standard c++ lib, so:

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.13 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

I'm sure there is a more elegant way than that, but it "just worked" after doing that.

It knows how not to lose at noughts and crosses though... Progamming that must have been quite challenge!

Rather than build them from source I asked the Warwick uni wot was appenin and have just received the source code!
This appears to be built in Kylix which I think is a pascal delphi thing for linux and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it.
I can pull the logic of esdac from it but the gui is a bit more problematical.

The resolution of the scope output is such that you could probably do it in curses in an Xterm... Same for the

The emulator itself shouldn't pose too many problems either. I'd write it in C....

Or just make it work. If I can get it to work under Debian 6...

Gordon

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