Small guidline...

Hy!

I 'm new at EMC and Linux Ubuntu so i have a few questions for building own components.

I had installed EMC + Ubuntu with Live CD.

The way to do i think:

1.) Write my C code for the component with a text editor and put it into emc2/src/hal/components with file extension .comp .
2.) Run comp.

Is this correct?

But i can´t find the path "emc2/src/hal/components" ?? Need i some more installation of EMC?

Many thanks in advance
Wolfgang

try this:
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.4/html/hal_comp....-realtime-components
I think that works without downloading the source...

Hi

You will only have .../emc2/src/hal/components if you are compiling emc from sources.
I don't know if configure would add in your component automatically or whether you would have to edit makefile.in

If I just want to add a single component to an already installed emc system, I just put the mycomponent.comp file in either the
~/emc2/configs directory that relates to the machine the component is to be used on
or in the root of the .../emc-dev/ directory if using on a RIP build.
That is just so I know where to look for source code, comp takes care of installing the compiled component.

From that directory (remembering to set the emc-environment if a RIP) run
sudo comp --install mycomponent.comp

and subject to your code being correct, it will be compiled and installed.

regards

Is it possible to find a describtion for this task, so that a person without much Linux experience like me can do this?

thanks

Ok! I will try it.

Thank you