Compatibility with ScicosLab-4.3

From rtss

We've tried some test cases in order to check the compatibility between RTSS and ScicosLab-4.3. In particular, this article aims to report some useful info for users who are interested in running RTSS-0.3.0 under ScicosLab-4.3 on a Windows XP powered PC (users should remember that RTSS-0.3.0 does not run on Windows Vista powered PC).

Operating Conditions

• O.S: Win XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2
• Compiler: MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, with MS Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2
• ScicosLab-4.3
• RTSS-0.3.0 source distrib. (current stable version)

Results

The test case above has not shown any problem, neither in the compiler detection phase, nor during the building phase itself. So, we should say that, from that point of view, we can certify the compatibility between the two softwares.

Different are the considerations regarding the execution of RTSS on ScicosLab: some incompatibilities about the graphic features between Scilab-4.1.2 and ScicosLab-4.3, made several RTSS graphics routines to fail. Nothing so problematic, all the problems have been fixed in the corresponding branch of RTSS SVN repository.

Conclusions

Users who want to use the stable RTSS (0.3.0) with ScicosLab-4.3 have necessarily to check out the SVN version

 svn co https://rtss.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rtss/software/branches/rel-0.3.x rtss-0.3.x

and compile it by themselves.