'The Open Instrumentation Project provides open source software...' No it doesn't. It provides no source code and is thus pretty useless. Shame, since the screenshots look good.

Full source code is not actually on this page and the binary install does not even support 64 bit.

There is a TCL wrapper around some binary files here. Look in the ImgWIN and ImgLin directories. No TCL, just 32 bit ELF binaries. I need 64 bit ELF binaries, and I don't see any C source code to build them. The front end is TCL, the source code to the back end is missing. Either they don't want to provide it, or they can't (its licensed to someone else). When I try to run wish main.tcl I get couldn't load file "./Img13Lin/libtkimgwindow1.3.so": ./Img13Lin/libtkimgwindow1.3.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 ...And I can't build for 64 bit, because I don't have the source code!

I have found a way to install this on 64bit Ubuntu. full details are here http://anatexis.net/wordpress/?p=22 but if you just want a synopsis, use alien to import the 64 bit rpm package from here... http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=syscomp-cgr ... their is a bug in alien which means you need to do some funky stuff, its all explained in the blog post. hope this helps!

This project is a rare species in the field of electrical engineering. Syscomp activly maintains a Linux port of their software. The have all of their own code open source. The binary *.so modules are actually open source too. You don't need them e.g. with openSUSE. In supporting this project, I have prepared RPM packages, that work without any precompiled binaries. See http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=syscomp-cgr Buildservice creates them for i586 and x86_64 on the fly now. Probably even architecture independant.