Thread: Beta testers: Is anyone creating a HAL implementation for the cRIO?
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Re: Beta testers: Is anyone creating a HAL implementation for the cRIO?
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Originally Posted by virtuald View Post
Well, close, but not quite what I want. This year, the python wpilib will be 100% python, using ctypes to interact with the HAL library. So, to make it work for the cRio, it seems like the best way would be to implement an API compatible HAL. There are a lot of cRios out there, and I suspect for most teams they'd be useful to use for testing.
Maybe you could implement the abstraction at a higher level? It seems like you should be able to detect which platform the code is running on, and then dispatch to one of two implementations.

Instead of detecting the platform, you could also just download the correct version of your libraries to each platform. (That's what we've done with our framework to make it completely work on both platforms.)
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