installing ni-daq base 3.3 in Open Suse

[davidsousamendes]

Hello.

I need to run my USB6008 on an  ANSI-C program on a Linux plataform

I'm having some  problems installing NI-DAQmx Base 3.3.0 on an openSUSE 11.2

1-  On Ni website, it's written that NI-DAQ Base in compatible with   openSUSE versions 10.3 and 10.2... Can anyone tell me if it's also  compatible with version 11.2?

2- After installing  NIVISA  without any problem, I run ./INSTALL, but I get the following error:

"./INSTALL_  line 274: return: -1: invalid option
return: usage return "

Any ideas?

[yanqele]

Caveat: I do not have an Open Suse system to check my reply (I am a Scientific Linux user aka RedHat).

1-The message is that Suse expects line 274 which reads         274        return -1    to be written    return [-1]

2-Possibly, this script written for an older version of the operating system utility    (shell)  sh    may violate a change in syntax in your version.

First of all, what do you see if giving the command:      ls -l  /bin/sh        ?  (both l's are small L's, not the number 1)

Among other possibilities,  ls -l /bin/sh  may well return a link to the Bash shell as in:

[localhost] /home/goldberg > ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Feb  4 21:11 /bin/sh -> bash

But the syntax for Bash return is precisely::

return

Cause a shell function to exit with the return value n.

Syntax
      return [n]  

So my bet is that all you need is to replace   -1   by [-1]  in line 274 and then
in lines 158 256 264 276 296 378 390 393 398 402
Of course, you will enclose the return value within a [ ] pair, not replacing watever is the programmed 
value by -1
Any editor has a way to find the string   return    which is much easier for finding the places to be changed 
than using the line numbers above (which is how I listed them for you )

I wish you that there be no other more difficult problem in your installation.
yanqele

[davidsousamendes]

Hi again.

Thank you for your fast answer yanqele.

When  I use the command "ls -l /bin/sh" what I get is similar to what you  told, "lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Feb  24 15:14 /bin/sh -> bash"

Now  about the changes on the INSTALL, I can't make changes on an ISO, so I  copied the hole ISO to a new folder, where I as able to make the changes  on the INSTALL, but when I try to run "./INSTALL" as rooter user, I get  the follow error: "-bash: ./INSTALL: Permission denied"

How  can I make those changes on the ISO?

Best regards

[Cepera]

If you use NI-KAL v1.10 (downloadable from the NI site), you can use openSUSE11.1, including its latest kernel, 2.6.27.45 - that is what I use.

Using 11.2 is problematic, if possible at all (at least for a newbie like me).

Sergey L.

[yanqele]

Indeed you cannot edit directly in the ISO structure and you did the right thing to copy INSTALL in a new directory ecept that you should copy all the files in the ISO not only INSTALL.

The error which you have after editing is again almost certainly a simple permission issue.

Try to reproduce this:

[localhost] /root > ls -l INSTALL
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 37371 Mar  8 16:23 INSTALL
[localhost] /root > chmod +w INSTALL
[localhost] /root > vi INSTALL                                --- here I used the vi editor, you use your favorite
[localhost] /root > ./INSTALL

  ***************************************
  * NI-DAQmx Base 3.3.0-f0 for Linux/x86 *
  ***************************************

as you see it begins to work.

If you see no   x   in line -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 37371 Mar  8 16:23 INSTALL

you need to apply command      chmod +x INSTALL    which means "make it executable".

Or, just the same, you may use         source INSTALL

To avoid similar further obstacles, please read carefully how to use commands   ls   and    chmod .

man ls       (man is short for    show the manual for command ls)    and

man chmod

May I kindly suggest this text:    http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html   ?

Or at least this: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/gs/node5.html ?

And if you really want to master Linux.Unix, this one is a must on your desk:

Mark Sobell , an introduction to System V.

Has not left my desk since about 20 years now.

Several updates published over the year.

Good luck

Yanqele

[davidsousamendes]

Hello fellows

I used NI-KAL  v1.10 on my Suse 11.2 and after that I did succeed  installing ni-daq-base 3.3

Now, I'm trying to run the analog input example "Acquire1Scan.c" but When I compile (gcc acquire1Scan.c) I got the following errors:

acquire1Scan.c:40:25: error: NIDAQmxBase.h: No such file or directory

acquire1Scan.c: In function ‘main’:

acquire1Scan.c:48: error: ‘int32’ undeclared (first use in this function)

acquire1Scan.c:48: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

acquire1Scan.c:48: error: for each function it appears in.)

acquire1Scan.c:48: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘error’

acquire1Scan.c:49: error: ‘TaskHandle’ undeclared (first use in this function)

acquire1Scan.c:49: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘taskHandle’

acquire1Scan.c:54: error: ‘float64’ undeclared (first use in this function)

acquire1Scan.c:54: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘min’

acquire1Scan.c:55: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘max’

acquire1Scan.c:58: error: ‘uInt64’ undeclared (first use in this function)

acquire1Scan.c:58: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘samplesPerChan’

acquire1Scan.c:61: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘data’

acquire1Scan.c:62: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘pointsToRead’

acquire1Scan.c:63: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘pointsRead’
...and so on...

Then  I tryed changing the include line to the folder where nidaqmxbase.h file is:
#include "../../include/NIDAQmxBase.h"

And now after I compile (gcc acquire1Scan.c) I get the following errors:

/tmp/ccuZkksC.o: In function `main':
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0xa8): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseCreateTask'
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0x10a): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseCreateAIVoltageChan'
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0x12e): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseStartTask'
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0x18f): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseReadAnalogF64'
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0x1d3): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseGetExtendedErrorInfo'
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0x1ed): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseStopTask'
acquire1Scan.c:(.text+0x1fc): undefined reference to `DAQmxBaseClearTask'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm sorry, I believe those are really newbie's questions but I'm really starting on the linux world...

Regards

[yanqele]

Did you really type the command     gcc Acquire1Scan.c ?

This would be a very bad idea

Your nidaqbase installation provided a directory /usr/local/natinst/nidaqmxbase/documentation   or something very similar

To find it, do as root       find / -name nidaqmxbase

In there, read the file  README.txt

To compile Acquire1Scan.c  , just be lazy

cd /usr/local/natinst/nidaqmxbase/examples/ai

and give the command      make

It will execute the instructions programmed for you in file Makefile , setting up includes, compiling, etc...

Again, all that is explained in README.txt quoted above.

Excuse me if you tried   make    : you wrote that you are a beginner, thus I write at the beginner level.

Jacques