[Kst] Howto enable DirFile support on kst-2.0, WinXP platform?

[Peter Milne]

On 07/29/2010 11:13 PM, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> We are currently working on windows dirfile support....  it will
> hopefully be usable 'soon', but it isn't yet.

Cheers Barth!

I'll be very happy to help test it.

Meanwhile, we'll just have to try to convert the end-user to Linux :-)

/Peter

>
> C. Barth Netterfield
> University of Toronto
> 416-845-0946
>
> On Jul 29, 2010 5:59 PM, "Peter Milne" <Peter.Milne at d-tacq.com
> <mailto:Peter.Milne at d-tacq.com>> wrote:
>  > Dear Kst
>  >
>  > We're using kst 1.8 on native Linux desktops to plot a large amount of
>  > data in binary DirFile format, and it works well.
>  >
>  > However, for end-user reasons, now it becomes necessary to plot the same
>  > data on WinXP. The kst 2.0 port looks promising, but neither the
>  > precompiled kst-2.0.0-beta2, nor a fresh local build from SVN seem to
>  > include this DirFile support.
>  >
>  > It seems likely that the getdata plugin is needed, however, I can't make
>  > it build under cygwin - ./configure works, but the make throws a huge
>  > number of system header errors during compile.
>  >
>  > - Has anyone used DirFile / getdata under WinXP?
>  > - If you can give me a quick HOWTO, that would be great.
>  >
>  > Also, please help with a gap in my understanding.
>  >
>  > The product of building getdata is libgetdata.so.1 (presumably .dll
>  > under WinXP).
>  >
>  > However, shouldn't there also be a plugin named something like:
>  > libkst2data_dirfile.a ?
>  >
>  > The alternative is presumably to convert all the data to ascii,
>  > however there will be about 50 shots, each 64 channels, 20K
>  > points/channel, so I'm concerned that Ascii will be very slow - not
>  > least since this data is hosted on a samba-export from an embedded
>  > system - and in any case, the embedded system already generates DirFiles
>  > which are a really good fit for this application!.
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance
>  >
>  >
>  > Peter
>  >
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