Compiling full LinuxCNC to get realtime components for use with PathPilot 2

Thanks Andy - I will have a run through and see if I can install on to a virtual machine.

This is going to sound like a stupid question .... but as I want to recreate the pathpilot install - I will need to install Linuxcnc 2.8.0-pre1. Where can I find the correct link to get that specific version. I can see 2.8 on the git but not sure how to link to it.

Thanks

Dave

git checkout <version> basically.

Is Pathpilot _really_ based on an unreleased 2.8 version?

git checkout 2.8

Would get the current 2.8. But it is possible that the 2.8_pre that you used won't have an equivalent in the LinuxCNC repository.

but if it does, I think you can checkout the exact version based on the hash. Do you see a string of hex after the version when LinuxCNC starts?

Please see below the screenshots from the log files at startup.

I originally had a parallel port configuration working under PP2.0 and when I upgraded to PP2.2.4 it stopped working - I had to make a number of hal/ini changes to get it working which in hindsight seems consistent with a version change. I've yet to be brave enough to upgrade to 2.3.6

Cheers

Dave

Hi,
I pulled 2.8.0-pre1 some time back
if you can't find it here it is from my google drive
2.8.0-pre1

the way I did this was install PP V2 into a virtual machine.
I loaded both PP 2.0.5 source and 2.8.0-pre1 source
installed need dependencies then compiled 2.8.0-pre1, do not install it only compile it from the operator id,
i was then able to pull any libs I needed

compiling pp 2.0.5 from source was fun as the list of prereq was larger as they are not included in the source

hope the 2.8.0-pre1 source helps

That's great thanks very much - will download it shortly and see how I get on.

Just to let you know it worked great thanks