I’m currently using a virtual machine to build and compile my cRIO project
Is there a way to do it without windows? From what I can tell, the netbean plugins are executing a bunch of commands (what I don’t know)
If that’s not possible, is it possible to build and upload via some sort of build script or ant build script? Opening up netbeans on anything is a pain, especially in a virtual machine, so if all I could do is deploy via a commandline tool in windows, it will be great.
Also, I can’t seems to access the sourcecode for wpilib java even though I’m logged in. Is that also proprietary?
OK… the plugin is pure java and works on either Windows, Mac or Linux. So you can run that on Linux without any problem, I use a Mac as my development system. You’ll still need to have a windows system (or some emulation) to run the Driver Station as that is Windows only.
The driver station can run on a different computer from the Netbeans development tools, just make them different IP addresses.
The source code is always built into the release. In your user directory, look for the sunspotfrcsdk folder. Inside there there is a lib directory with the WPILibJ project that contains all the source code for that release.
Whenever you get a new update, the source updates as well.
You are free to modify the code, but be careful, because if updates come out you’ll loose your changes (or have to reapply them).
Better is to make additional classes or subclass the pieces in the library to add features. For example, if you want to make your own implementation of a Jaguar, the make a class the extends (subclasses) the built-in class. Then you can override the built-in methods or add your own.
What do you mean? I have used netbeans on both ubuntu and debian with no problems other than basic getting used to the IDE which is normal with all software for me.
hmm. I’ve never seemed to have too much of a problem with that. Of course while coding the only thing I have running is Firefox or Chromium with Pandora and Chief Delphi open.
Well that may do it. However I was able to have 20 bashshells open and running various scripts, as well as pandora and live streaming videos with vlc with no problem with 3GB RAM and a low end 2.1GHz processor.
