LAOS CUPS driver installation under Mac OSX 10.7¶

• Table of contents
• LAOS CUPS driver installation under Mac OSX 10.7
  • Before you start
    • Requirements :
    • Environment:
  • Installation of dependencies and laos-cups
    • ghostscript
    • tftp-hpa
    • pstoedit
    • cups-laos cups backend + ppd
  • Install the laser cutter under CUPS
  • Notes
    • Bug: device URI can't be changed while installing laser cutter in CUPS admin panel
    • "wget: command not found"

This was only tested on Mac OSX 10.7
if you use an other version of Mac OSX just give it a try

Before you start¶

Requirements :¶

You will need Apples Xcode + Apple's Command Line Developer Tools

read http://www.macports.org/install.php, that should provide you with all you need

Environment:¶

If you have macports or homebrew installed make shure your PATH variable lists

/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin before any other bin or sbin directories

example macports

$ echo $PATH
     /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/user/bin/:/Users/user/bin/
$ export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/user/bin/:/Users/user/bin/"

if you want to check against which libraries your programm has been linked use

$ otool -L <binary>

make shure that you don't link against /opt/local/lib, this is a macports library path and shouldn't be used if you want to
have a native OSX installation

if you run in problems with the linking use

$ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib" ./configure

that will force the linker to search /usr/lib first.

Installation of dependencies and laos-cups¶

ghostscript¶

read first http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Make.htm#Mac_build

$ wget http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.06.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf ghostscript-9.06.tar.gz
$ cd ghostscript-9.06
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

tftp-hpa¶

the OSX tftp client doesn't work with cups-laos, install the extended version

$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa-5.2.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf tftp-hpa-5.2.tar.gz
$ cd tftp-hpa-5.2
$ ./configure --without-ipv6
$ make

backup the original, and install tftp-hpa

$ sudo cp /usr/bin/tftp /usr/bin/tftp.orig
$ sudo cp tftp/tftp /usr/bin/tftp

pstoedit¶

after ghostscript is installed pstoedit will compile

$ git clone -b laos https://github.com/LaosLaser/pstoedit.git
$ cd pstoedit
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

cups-laos cups backend + ppd¶

$ git clone https://github.com/LaosLaser/Software
$ cd Softwate/cups-laos/src
$ make
$ sudo cp cups-laos /usr/libexec/cups/backend/
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-laos

read https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Printing/Conceptual/UsingPPDFiles/ppd_tasks/ppd_tasks.html section "Installing PPD Files"

$ sudo mkdir /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj
$ sudo cp CUPS-LAOS.ppd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj
$ sudo chmod 755 /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/CUPS-LAOS.ppd

Install the laser cutter under CUPS¶

now you can add a laser cutter eader trough http://localhost:631
or OSX System Preferences -> Printer -> + -> cups-laos

Notes¶

Bug: device URI can't be changed while installing laser cutter in CUPS admin panel¶

Connection is allways "cups-laos://127.0.0.1:69/laos" and can only be changed
by editing /etc/cups/printers.conf

search for

DeviceURI cups-laos://127.0.0.1:69/laos

and replace 127.0.0.1 with the destination of your laser cutter

"wget: command not found"¶

if you are not using macports or homebrew but have already Apples Xcode + Apple's Command Line Developer Tools installed,
you can install wget with

$ curl -o wget-latest.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
$ tar xzf wget-latest.tar.gz
$ cd wget-x.y.z # Directory that where compressed in the latest archive, for example wget-1.11.4.
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

otherwise just download the sources with your browser