Re: Orocos Help

On Thursday 05 December 2002 14:25, you wrote:
> Hello,
> we are a couple of students of Politecnico of Milano and we are working
> on a thesis about robotics with professor G. Magnani. We need to use
> Orocos to drive a robot, but we have some installation problems.
> We are working on a PC with Linux Debian without real-time
> functionalities and no interface cards. During the installation of the
> Orocos Device Drivers package system tells us, for every available
> driver, "disbled for GNU/Linux". The command we use to configure the
> package is:
>
> /configure --prefix=/our/core/dir/  --with-gnulinux --enable-apcixxxx

Hi, 

Great to hear that you check Orocos out. Are you using the 0.9.0 version ?
If you don't have these cards in your computer, just do a normal configure and 
make install. This will install all header files anyway.
The other packages (except robots) do not depend on the drivers package, so 
it's no problem if it's not installed, since you will address your drivers 
through the FDI iterfaces, which is in the Core.

be sure to follow the installation instructions on 
http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~psoetens/orodocs/orocos-drivers.html

Maybe we'll make a dummy drivers package which 'emulates' device drivers so 
that you get an idea how it should work without having real hardware.

>
> How can we fix this problem? Is strictly necessary an RTOS in order to
> compile the Drivers?

no, it should always compile and install.

Peter

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> Thank you very much
> Piercarlo Uboldi
> Fabrizio Nespoli