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# Prerequisits are that during install of the NI drivers, the C/C++ support | # Prerequisits are that during install of the NI drivers, the C/C++ support | ||
# and the NI Measurement & Automation explorer has been enabled. | # and the NI Measurement & Automation explorer has been enabled. | ||
# set the base for includes and libraries on your system | |||
# it is usually /usr, but on newer windows installs of octave, it will be | |||
# /mingw64 | |||
INSTALL_BASE=/usr | |||
# this define should find the NI header file, if properly installled | # this define should find the NI header file, if properly installled | ||
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# symlink NI header file | # symlink NI header file | ||
mkdir -p | mkdir -p ${INSTALL_BASE}/include/gpib/ | ||
ln -sf "${NI_H_FILE}" | ln -sf "${NI_H_FILE}" ${INSTALL_BASE}/include/gpib/ib.h | ||
# generate .def for all functions in the NI header file with a NI488CC prefix | # generate .def for all functions in the NI header file with a NI488CC prefix | ||
echo LIBRARY ${NI_DLL_FILE} > ${NI_DEF_FILE} | echo LIBRARY ${NI_DLL_FILE} > ${NI_DEF_FILE} | ||
echo EXPORTS >> ${NI_DEF_FILE} | echo EXPORTS >> ${NI_DEF_FILE} | ||
grep "NI488CC *[A-Za-z]" | grep "NI488CC *[A-Za-z]" ${INSTALL_BASE}/include/gpib/ib.h \ | ||
| sed "s/^.*NI488CC *//" \ | | sed "s/^.*NI488CC *//" \ | ||
| sed "s/(.*$//" >> ${NI_DEF_FILE} | | sed "s/(.*$//" >> ${NI_DEF_FILE} | ||
# generate the wrapper library simulating gpib-linux | # generate the wrapper library simulating gpib-linux | ||
dlltool -d ${NI_DEF_FILE} -l | dlltool -d ${NI_DEF_FILE} -l ${INSTALL_BASE}/lib/libgpib.a | ||
#cleanup | #cleanup | ||
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== MacOS == | == MacOS == | ||
You need to build rpcgen from source [http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.bin/rpcgen]. | You need to build '''rpcgen''' from source [http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.bin/rpcgen]. | ||
If rpcgen cannot be build from source, the following error might be obtained: | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="text" style="font-size:13px"> | |||
pkg: error running `make' for the instrument-control package. | |||
error: called from | |||
configure_make at line 99 column 9 | |||
install at line 184 column 7 | |||
pkg at line 437 column 9 | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
If the '''VXI-11 interface''' is not required, a workarround is proposed in [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46720092/make-error-when-installing-instrument-control-package-for-octave/52860282#52860282] after the bug reported on [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54842]. | |||
= Examples = | = Examples = | ||
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* Every read or write command opens and closes a new gpib session, since the linux-gpib session pointer is only valid for single command. | * Every read or write command opens and closes a new gpib session, since the linux-gpib session pointer is only valid for single command. | ||
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