[Ham-Mac] Xastir cont'd

[Marinus van Opzeeland]

Christian F1GWR heeft op maandag, 9 jun 2003 om 10:56 
(Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven:

> Hi there,
>
> Thanks to everybody who answered my mail (special mention to Dennis: 
> less than one minute - Can't believe it!)
>
> Indeed Fink Commander solved my problems. I didn't know if it solves 
> dependencies (think so however...) therefore I checked even files that 
> where similar to the list suggested by Marinus (e.g. libxml2: also 
> added libxml2-bin and libxml2-shlibs, or libpng: also added those with 
> libpng3). Suggestion: Marinus could you include this information in 
> your instructions?

I have been rewriting the instructions yesterday for the new xastir 
stable version (it's not up on the web yet). this is hat I have put in 
on installing Fink and its packages.

Install Fink <http://fink.sourceforge.net> per the instructions. To 
install the necessary packages and libraries to compile and run xastir, 
I recommend installing and using FinkCommander 
<http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/>.
Following packages at least need to be installed.

autoconf25
automake
curl
curl-dev
imagemagick
lcms
lesstif
libjpeg
libpng3
libtiff
libxml2
system-xfree86

You will be prompted to install additional packages; just use the 
default response. When completed, quit FinkCommander.

> Now Xastir shows up but I still have a Mac-specific problems (sorry to 
> bother you with newb questions, but I checked the six last months of 
> the Xastir-list archive, I couldn't find the answers.)
>
> 1 Xastir is currently in /Applications/xastir/xastir115 like other 
> MacOS X applications. Is this correct? Where am I to put the maps so 
> they can be seen by the application:  
> /Applications/xastir/xastir115/maps folder?  /sw folder?  
> /usr/local/xastir/maps folder?  Now when I open Map Chooser I only 
> have a item in the maps chooser called GPS/   Also remember I use 
> Europe maps :

If you used

./configure --prefix=/sw
make
make install

your xastir application is in /sw/bin and there is also a /sw/xastir 
folder. This contains all the support files: maps, sounds, configs, 
etc. You can put your maps in that maps folder but you may need to 
change privileges (get info) in order to be able to put stuff in it.

The xastir115 folder (I guess that is the expanded folded of what you 
downloaded) is no longer required after "make install".

> 2 I own a Baycom KISS modem, tied to a (perfectly working) Keyspan 
> USA28X USB-serial converter.  With the ZTerm application, an 
> oscilloscope shows that Start-stop signals are present on DB9 pin 3. 
> The thing is Baycom doesn't use pin 2 & 3 but DTR 4 (20) FOR TxD, CTS 
> 8 (5) for RxD, and RTS 7 (4) for PTT. Is this modem Xastir (serial 
> KISS TNC option) compatible? Beside that, am I to install AX-25 layer?

I am not familiar with the baycom modem, but you should not need  ax25. 
Note that the Serial KISS TNC interface assumes that the TNC already is 
in KISS mode.

> Another issue is more Xastir specific, and will be sent to the 
> Xastir-list:
>
> I would like to use recycled Navtech CD-ROM used in many car 
> navigation systems. Is the SDAL format compatible? If not it would be 
> of highest interest to include those detailed maps in Xastir, as these 
> CD-ROM become more and more available now as car nav system market 
> grows. If a programmer guru reads me, he will find the SDAL specs at: 
> http://www.navtech.com/sdalformat/formatspec_register.html
> What do you think

Indeed a question for the xastir list.

73, Marinus - PE1LIF