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ijabbott · (This post was last modified: 06-11-2019 10:17 PM by ijabbott.)

(06-11-2019 03:49 PM)Leviset Wrote: Pauli,
In the early 90s I was an IT Testing Team Leader for a large IT Shop.
I’d be more than welcome to ‘test’ the WP43S if that’s a help, as there are many more qualified Forum members than me to help with the coding! (I was a Systems Analyst/Programmer from 1979-90 (as a freelance contractor) then an IT Testing Team Leader (mainly on Tandem non/stop Mainframes and IBM 3090) between 1990-1992 and finally the running of Worldwide Computer & Network Live Operations between 1992-2004.
So I’ve not coded commercially since 1990 but have kept my ‘hands in use’ for my own projects although mainly using high level development tools like Microsoft Access, FileMaker Pro & Mathematica with a smattering of Python.
I’m assuming you only have a part built WS43S and are using an emulator of the WS43S to try out your source code?

As a very minor contributor to the project (mostly getting GNU make to play nice), I can tell you that the emulator is currently the platform of choice for development and testing of the code. It is written in C, and the emulator uses GTK+ 3 libraries for the graphical interface.

Quote:Whatever system your emulator runs in, I do have Windows 8.1/10, OSX, Linux, iOS and Raspberry Pi environment setups at home.
I’ve also owned the WP34S for a few years.
Dennis

The project is hosted on GitLab (not GitHub), with the master repository at https://gitlab.com/Over_score/wp43s. The emulator can be built for 64-bit versions of Windows, Linux, and OSX, so a Raspberry Pi would probably need some tweaks to the Makefile (except maybe a Raspberry Pi 3).

It can use GNU make for building (which is what I use) but it can also be built in the Code::Blocks IDE.

I have successfully built it on both Linux and Windows, using an MSYS2/MinGW-w64 development environment for Windows. I guess you could also use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on Windows 10, although I haven't tried it. You need various development libraries installed - mainly the GTK+-3.0 libraries (for the GUI interface) and the FreeType 2 libraries (to generate the embedded raster font bitmaps). Half the battle is setting up the build environment, especially on Windows!