Thread: Programming with the 2009 controller
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Re: Programming with the 2009 controller
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Originally Posted by Danny Diaz View Post
I can officially answer that we do not support the Mac for downloading Real-Time code to the cRIO. You can develop code on a Mac, but you must use Windows or Linux to upload your code to your controller.

However, virtual machines are a wonderful thing, especially if you've got an Intel Mac that can run Windows and Mac OS X natively. In that scenario your problem is solved.

-Danny
Danny,

Is/will the protocol used to upload programs to the cRIO be documented, as it is (or seems to be) just a simple IP transmission over ethernet? I'd be more than happy to use a protocol specification to write a loader for OS X / Solaris / any other unsupported UNIX system.
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