Introduction

This page captures the procedure for building and using the latest LinuxCNC master branch pncconf from the Debian stretch RTPrempt kernel.

This follows the procedure from (http://linuxcnc.org/docs/master/html/code/building-linuxcnc.html)

Check out linuxcnc source

sudo apt-get install autoconf pkg-config dpkg-dev

mkdir linuxcnc-dev
cd linuxcnc-dev
git clone [email protected]:LinuxCNC/linuxcnc.git
cd linuxcnc

# install all needed dependencies (current, might change)
sudo apt-get install debhelper tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev libreadline-gplv2-dev asciidoc dblatex docbook-xsl dvipng graphviz groff inkscape python-lxml source-highlight texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-spanish texlive-latex-recommended w3c-linkchecker xsltproc asciidoc-dblatex python-dev libxmu-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev gettext intltool libboost-python-dev netcat libmodbus-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev yapps2

# check that dependencies are satisfied
cd debian
./configure uspace
cd ..
dpkg-checkbuilddeps

# build
cd src/
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-realtime=uspace
make

changes can then be made to, for instance, pncconf and run from this local build:

../bin/pncconf

I ran into issues with the default pncconf libs being loaded before the custom pncconf build, even though the sys.path seems to be set appropriately.