PathPilot V2 source code

I got the v2.9.0 source code recently.

Tried to compile using the following steps on a debian stretch with preempt-rt kernel (Linux stretchrt64 4.9.0-19-rt-amd64)
installed Python version is: /v2.9.0$ python --version
Python 2.7.13

cd v2.9.0/linuxcnc/src
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-realtime=uspace --enable-non-distributable
make
sudo make setuid

These steps go well. But there is nothing populated in the rtlib directory. No sign of file hal_lib.so needed to start HAL .

Should I post the source somewhere for others to try and help?
I can be careful to post only the GPL portion of the source from the linuxcnc directory that tormach sent.
-automata

I got the rtlib dir populated by running

make modules
This command compiles all the HAL modules and populates them in the rtlib directory.

Next, I am trying to run any sim configuration. This is turning out to be a little problematic as it errors out with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/bin/axis", line 64, in <module>
    from gremlin_draw import GremlinDraw, GlDrawColors
ImportError: No module named gremlin_draw

I think this is related to the library and python path setting as the files gremlin_draw.py is definitely there in the folder /v2.9.0/linuxcnc/lib/python/gremlin.

Figuring out how to check on python path and library path on a rip-install.
will keep this thread posted about my progress.
 

after adding /v2.9.0/linuxcnc/lib/python/gremlin to environment variable PYTHONPATH by running following command:
export PYTHONPATH=/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/lib/python/gremlin:$PYTHONPATH

I get stuck on the next error in launching axis:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/bin/axis", line 3205, in <module>
o = MyOpengl(widgets.preview_frame, width=400, height=300, double=1, depth=1)
File "/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/bin/axis", line 377, in __init__
self.set_eyepoint(5.)
File "/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/lib/python/support/glnav.py", line 120, in inner
return f(self, *args, **kw)
File "/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/lib/python/support/glnav.py", line 112, in __exit__
self.fcall()
File "/v2.9.0/linuxcnc/lib/python/gremlin/gremlin_draw.py", line 152, in _redraw
raise NotImplementedError
NotImplementedError

Looks like axisUI and more specifically gremlin is a no-go to run the sim configs with axis UI based on the changes made by tormach.
Next step: Try to run axisUI without gremlin? OR try to run another UI like touchy or keystick (anything that does not use gremlin)?

got xemc to work by changing the DISPLAY = axis to DISPLAY=-xemc in the axis.ini file in the configs/sim/axis/axis.ini file. Dont know how to use xemc though . Learning.

If someone still wants the v2.9.0 code that I got from tormach, I can comb through the files and ensure that I am not violating any tormach copyrights (by deleting the images and other copyrighted tormach material) and share the source as a repo somewhere?

I was able to get LinuxCNC to compile on a fresh install of Mint v18. From what I can tell, if you want all of the pathpilot parts to work as well you need a successful make from the pathpilot source directory. Making from there configures and executes the LinuxCNC make. I got all of this working on Mint v18, but still have not gotten it to work starting with a working pathpilot install.

Scott...

I didn't think that there was actually anything that was not re-distributable in the source code that you get from Tormach with the pathpilot source USB card.