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lundmar:
Here is a shout out and big thank you to Siglent for supporting the open source lxi-tools project!  :-+

They have recently decided that we can keep the SDS1204X-E which was lent to us to support the ongoing development of lxi-tools. See https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/open-source-lxi-tools-and-liblxi-v1-0-released-for-gnulinux/msg1394796/#msg1394796

The device has been very helpful for the development and testing of lxi-tools. It will now become a permanent part of a regression test setup to make sure lxi-tools will continue to work with Siglent devices.

Personally I'm happy to finally see instrument manufacturers be serious about supporting open source - this way we will all get better tools for our instruments. It is also worth noticing that Siglent is very responsive to feedback from the EEVBlog forum users and I'm sure that has helped make their instruments better and more desirable. I wish more manufacturers would do the same. It's the new way of doing business. Good job Siglent  :-+

https://www.siglentamerica.com/application-note/lxi-tools/
https://www.siglentamerica.com/video/lxi-tools/

List of lxi-tools sponsors: https://github.com/lxi-tools/lxi-tools#9-sponsors

lundmar:
Just some interesting statistics retrieved from the snap system:



This statistics only count snap installs, not lxi-tools installations installed via native distro packages.

cnkz:
I tried to compile the tools....

First the install steps description in the readmes are not correct, they say:
--- Code: ---./configure; make; make install 
--- End code ---
  But there are no configure scripts...

I think i need to use the autogen.sh scripts to generate the configure scripts but they do give errors:

a) for liblxi


--- Code: ---./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:22: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_SHARED
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_STATIC
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

--- End code ---

b) for lxitools

--- Code: ---./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:6: installing './ar-lib'
configure.ac:6: installing './compile'
configure.ac:4: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:4: installing './missing'
src/Makefile.am:2: error: library used but 'RANLIB' is undefined
src/Makefile.am:2:   The usual way to define 'RANLIB' is to add 'AC_PROG_RANLIB'
src/Makefile.am:2:   to 'configure.ac' and run 'autoconf' again.
src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

--- End code ---

Any idea how to fix that?

lundmar:

--- Quote from: cnkz on September 12, 2018, 05:48:31 pm ---I tried to compile the tools....

First the install steps description in the readmes are not correct, they say:
--- Code: ---./configure; make; make install 
--- End code ---
  But there are no configure scripts...

I think i need to use the autogen.sh scripts to generate the configure scripts but they do give errors:


--- End quote ---

It's because you pulled the git development code. What you want to do is download and use the release tarballs - only they include the configure script etc..

If you don't want to bother with autotools I recommend simply installing lxi-tools via snap to get latest version:


--- Code: ---$ snap install lxi-tools

--- End code ---

If you do insist on building from git source please see the top post in this thread where you will find a description of how to build from git source.

cnkz:
Thanks, i tried (first time) snap and it works.

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