[Elecraft] S: Re: KX3/PX3 Linux Utilities for Raspberry Pi?

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2016 07 Apr 11:19 -0500, lstavenhagen wrote:
> Maybe after it settles down a bit more Elecraft might look at supporting it?
> I wish I had the spare brain cycles to play with one of these, looks like a
> lot of bang/buck....

At this time not even amd64 builds of the Elecraft tools have been made
available so I run them in a i386 VirtualBox instance of Debian Jessie
on the odd occasion I need to use them.

> Do the linux distros for it come with the dev. toolchains like GCC in them
> (I would imagine it's now matured past having to cross-compile binaries for
> it on PCs) ?

They're not usually installed by default but are available via the
package manager of choice (in my case that is Aptitude).  As I recall
the build-essentials package is a meta package that includes most common
build tools as dependencies.

> How's the Python support?

The Pi Foundation has made sure that the Python support is very good.

73, Nate

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