Installation in windows

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Installation for windows (7 or later?)

Client application

A REGBOT GUI for windows is packed into a single (big) exe-file. This is available on the course page or downloaded from the SVN in directory 

qtgui/dist/regbot.exe.

The application is also a python script that can run on windows

It is on a subversion (SVN) repository, first install subversion on the PC.

Using subversion (from a 'cmd' prompt). 

 svn co svn://repos.gbar.dtu.dk/jcan/regbot/qtgui

If using another svn client, then use only the repository name svn://repos.gbar.dtu.dk/jcan/regbot/qtgui .

Tool installation - client

This is not needed to run the client, but is needed to create new versions of the client (on Windows) or to run the python source directly.

Python and QT

To be able to change the user interface (regbot.py) python (version 2.7), PyQt4 and pyserial needs to be installed:

Installation of http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt4/PyQt-4.11.3/PyQt4-4.11.3-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.6-x32.exe NB! it must be QT4 and x32 (not x64) and filename must include 'Py2.7'

Simple way is from command line 

pip install pyserial
  • Installation of PyQtGraph is needed for the plotting, this requires Numpy, and this in turn requires Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 compiler for Python:
  • get the compiler: from http://aka.ms/vcpython27 download the installer "VCForPython27" and run it.
  • install numpy (from the command line)
pip install numpy
  • install PyQtGraph-0.9.10.win32
pip install pyqtgraph

Tools to make the exe file

To pack an application as an exe-file for windows a pyinstaller is needed.

Install from cmd line 

pip install pyinstaller

If you get this error, when you try: 

pyinstaller
Error: Pyinstaller for Python 2.6+ needs pywin32 ...

Then go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/?source=typ_redirect then the link "browse all files"-> "pywin32" -> "build..." and find pywin32-XXX-win32-py2.7.exe

Run this installation

make EXE file

Make the python script to a single exe-file

in a windows cmd prompt, go to the directory with the main python script 

pyinstaller --onefile regbot.py

This will make a subdirectoty called dist. This holds the new application exe-file that can be copied to another windows (without administrator prviledes) and run!

Teensy code

To compile code to Teensy 3.1, and download to the robot requires a bit more

- Code loader - see https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/loader.html - Code uses an arduino library, but is written in C (compiled with a C++ compiler), this requires further installation

To make the Makefile work you need to install

MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) from http://www.mingw.org/Welcome_to_MinGW_org

Then it should be possible to re-establish the symbolic links described in the http://rsewiki.elektro.dtu.dk/index.php/Software_installation#Regbot_software

and compile the code to a ".hex" file that can be loaded to the teensy.

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