CVS Tarball / EMCMOT Interface

["Markus Meyer" <meyer-at-mesw.de>]

Hi,

I've been (finally ;-) playing around with EMC/RTAI and a Servo-To-Go-Card 
for some days now, but haven't had a chance to connect motors to it. 
Unfortunately, because of firewall restriction here (no CVS access), I had 
to use the (outdated?) TARs from February. Wouldn't it be good to regularly 
(say, monthly or weekly) build tarballs from the CVS and publish it on 
sourceforge? (This is a problem other projects have, too)

Our application needs very fast reaction to given segments, so I would like 
to interface with EMCMOT directly, thus bypassing the GUI or even the GCODE 
interpreter. My understanding so far is, that EMCMOT at the top level 
provides an API which lets one issue "commands" (f.e. an arc or a straight 
line) that are put into a buffer and executed sequentially (please tell me 
if this is totally wrong). Is there (a) any documentation on the buffer 
interface EMCMOT provides, and (b) what would it take to compile EMCMOT 
standalone? F.e. the code comments state that "EMCMOT doesn't use RCSLIB 
directly", but I see that there are a lot of dependencies with some RCSLIB 
headers and other files, and in this sense it doesn't seem as modular to me 
as it is advertised on the website.

Many thanks in advance and keep up the good work!


Markus