Lintouch, the opensource HMI
http://lintouch.org
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1. What is Lintouch
Lintouch is an opensource HMI software. It lets you design user interfaces for process automation. Lintouch runs on most popular hardware and software platforms, is lightweight and easily extensible.
Lintouch architecture allows you to develop your own connectivity plugins and visualization objects.
2. Installing Lintouch from binaries
Latest stable release of Lintouch is always available in binary format for various operating systems (Windows and Linux always supported). To download binaries for your operating system please visit http://lintouch.org/static/download.html.
3. Installing Lintouch from sources
Lintouch can be compiled easily from sources under a unix-like operating system using the magic triple:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
This sequence will install all Lintouch related files into the default prefix /usr/local. You can change this by invoking:
$ ./configure --prefix=/my/path
Note that Lintouch installs several shared libraries and your linker must be able to find them. If you install Lintouch to a non-system directory, follow ld.so(8) manual page to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_RUN_PATH, or /etc/ld.so.conf properly. Please adopt these instructions accordingly if you are using other unix-like (but not linux) operating system. In our example above:
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/my/path/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
will indicate that the ld.so linker should look for shared libraries also into /my/path/lib.
3.1 Prerequisites
In order to compile lintouch from sources you will need several external packages to be installed. Please install them in the following order:
(the following ones should be part of your distribution)
- pkg-config: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
- CppUnit: http://cppunit.sf.net
- Doxygen: http://www.doxygen.org
- APR: http://apr.apache.org
- Qt: http://www.trolltech.com/qt
4. Getting involved
Lintouch is an opensource project and community effort and we always welcome feedback, bug reports and feature requests. If you want to get involved or just observe how Lintouch is progressing, feel free to join our discussion at IRC or via mailing lists. The detailed instructions can be found at http://lintouch.org.
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