Win32 support for Orocos 2.0

Hello,

Windows is now fully supported in RTT 1.12, including the readline support
in the taskbrowser. What's the state of the win32 target in Orocos 2.0 ?

I'm going to start a new Orocos-based project on Linux, but the GUI will be
on Windows. Actually, I'm not sure if I can go with 2.0 or might I stay on
1.x ?

Thank you,

Philippe Hamelin

Win32 support for Orocos 2.0

On Friday 08 October 2010 19:56:05 Philippe Hamelin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Windows is now fully supported in RTT 1.12, including the readline support
> in the taskbrowser. What's the state of the win32 target in Orocos 2.0 ?

Identical + more. I have ported all relevant pieces from the 1.x branch to
2.x. 2.x also contains improvements on the timing and priorities front on
win32 threads, these were not back-ported to 1.x. I have read reports of
people using 2.0 + win32 + corba. You'll need the 2.1 release to have the
corba fixes + 1.12.0 fixes though.

>
> I'm going to start a new Orocos-based project on Linux, but the GUI will be
> on Windows. Actually, I'm not sure if I can go with 2.0 or might I stay on
> 1.x ?

If corba is the way you will communicate between both systems, I can only
recommend the 2.x version, since it has a cleaner API and we can handle the
memory consumption much better. You'll also benefit from typegen, so no longer
need to write typekits and transports.

As you may have noticed, all core developers/users have switched to 2.x. It's
really worth a try.

Peter

Win32 support for Orocos 2.0

On Oct 12, 2010, at 03:51 , Peter Soetens wrote:

> On Friday 08 October 2010 19:56:05 Philippe Hamelin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Windows is now fully supported in RTT 1.12, including the readline support
>> in the taskbrowser. What's the state of the win32 target in Orocos 2.0 ?
>
> Identical + more. I have ported all relevant pieces from the 1.x branch to
> 2.x. 2.x also contains improvements on the timing and priorities front on
> win32 threads, these were not back-ported to 1.x. I have read reports of
> people using 2.0 + win32 + corba. You'll need the 2.1 release to have the
> corba fixes + 1.12.0 fixes though.
>
>>
>> I'm going to start a new Orocos-based project on Linux, but the GUI will be
>> on Windows. Actually, I'm not sure if I can go with 2.0 or might I stay on
>> 1.x ?
>
> If corba is the way you will communicate between both systems, I can only
> recommend the 2.x version, since it has a cleaner API and we can handle the
> memory consumption much better. You'll also benefit from typegen, so no longer
> need to write typekits and transports.
>
> As you may have noticed, all core developers/users have switched to 2.x. It's
> really worth a try.

Harumph! Nice to be included ... :-0
S