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h1. LAOS CUPS driver installation under Mac OSX 10.7
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h2. Before you start
h3. 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
h3. 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 librarys 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.
h2. Installation of dependencies and laos-cups
Now we can start installing
h3. 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
h3. GraphicsMagick
This is work in progress, pstoedit uses Magick++ so i compiled it but stripped almost everything to have a clean compile without installing
further dependencies, need to have a look in pstoedit/src/drvlaos.cpp to see what is actually used for image manipulation
$ wget ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/1.3/GraphicsMagick-1.3.17.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf GraphicsMagick-1.3.17.tar.gz
$ cd GraphicsMagick-1.3.17/
$ ./configure --disable-openmp --without-bzlib --without-jbig --without-jpeg --without-jp2 --without-lcms --without-lcms2 --without-lzma --without-png --without-tiff --without-trio --without-ttf --without-wmf --without-xml --without-zlib --without-x --without-png
$ make
$ sudo make install
pstoedit will look for Magick++-config instead of GraphicsMagick++-config
so we create a link to cover this
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/GraphicsMagick++-config /usr/local/bin/Magick++-config
h3. 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
backup the original, and install tftp-hpa
$ sudo cp /usr/bin/tftp /usr/bin/tftp.orig
$ cp tftp/tftp /usr/bin/tftp
h3. pstoedit
after gostscript and GraphicsMagick is installed pstoedit will compile
$ git clone -b laos https://github.com/LaosLaser/pstoedit.git
$ cd pstoedit
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
h3. 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
h2. h4. Install the laser cutter under CUPS
now you can add a laser printer/laser cutter eader trough http://localhost:631
or OSX System Preferences -> Printer -> + -> cups-laos
h2. Notes
h3. Bug can't change device URI
Bug: 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
the cups backend in Software/cups-laos/src/Config.cpp line 20
than recompile, copy the new backend to /usr/libexec/cups/backend/ and replace 127.0.0.1 with reinstall
the destination of your laser printer/laser cutter
h3. "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 # Verzeichnis, das im latest Archiv verpackt war, z.B. wget-1.11.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
otherwise just download the sources with your browser in cups admin interface