[Elecraft] KX3 utility on RPi

[James Bennett]

Ah, crud - you know, I saw that "x86-based Linux” statement and it never dawned on me about the Pi being ARM-based!!! I should have known that, as I went through a ton of hoops getting WSJT-X and Hamlib running on the RPi because of that issue. In both instances I had to compile from source. Once the dependencies were addressed, the compilation process went well, although sloooooow. Well, I suppose Elecraft doesn’t provide source for the utility, so I guess I’ve got to pull the cable off the RPi and over to my iMac and run the Utility over there on OSX. Not cool, dang it. Oh well…

Thanks for everyone’s input.

73 and Happy Holidays, Jim / W6JHB
Folsom, CA


> On   Tuesday, Dec 13, 2016, at  Tuesday, 6:16 PM, Tim Elwell <kg1gem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The utility is compiled for the x86 architecture. You won't be able to run it on the ARM architecture that the Pi runs on. The only way to do that is for Elecraft to compile a version for the ARM. Last I seem to recall being mentioned, there wasn't enough need to spend the time setting up the tool chain and dependencies for the ARM platform. It would be time best spent fixing other problems.
> 
> I'm a Pi person myself and would like to see it for that platform, but do understand as a programmer the difficulties of the extra support required for another platform. And a small company has to watch their employee capital.
> 
> Here's hoping for the future, though.
> 
> Tim
> KG1GEM
> 
> PS: Sorry Jim, I realized I mistakenly replied directly to you and not the list originally.
> 
> 
> On 12/13/16 7:53 PM, James Bennett wrote:
>> I’ve been using my KX3 connected to a Raspberry Pi 3 for quite some time, using CQRlog for logging, FLDIGI for PSK31, and recently, WXJT-X rc3 for JT9 and JT65. I’d like to load the most current firmware into the KX3 so I can get the full 15 watts out. I downloaded and un-tar’d the KX3 Utility from the Elecraft web site. So - now what? If I click on the “kx3util” executable, nothing happens. What is the secret procedure to get this going? I am using the Raspian Jessie (Debian Linux) OS on this RPi.
>> 
>> 
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