Compile TiLP from source

What is tilp?

TiLP is a program that allows you to connect a TI-graphing calculator to your computer. To use TiLP you need some sort of cable between the computer and the calculator. For information about obtaining such a cable check out:

http://www.ticalc.org/hardware/cables/

Install using apt:

If you run breezy badger you can do:

sudo aptitude install tilp

However this pre-compiled version of tilp did not work for me, instead I got lots of errors similair to:

(tilp:23563): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_get_idlist1 _activate'.

(tilp:23563): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_treev

Compiling from source:

To fix this problem(which makes TiLP unusable) I decided to compile from source. This page describes how this can be done, in case other people run in to the same problem as I did!

First I removed the apt-version of tilp by typing:

sudo aptitude remove tilp

Now I downloaded the latest(stable) source-version of tilp, openbox and obconf from:

Tilp: http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/linux.html

Openbox: http://icculus.org/openbox/

Obconf: http://tr.openmonkey.com/pages/obconf

Next step was to:

sudo aptitude install libtifiles0-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libticalcs4-dev libgtk2.0-dev

Now I opened a terminal and did:

tar -zxvf <openbox filename>
cd <openbox directory> 
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar -zxvf <obconf filename>
cd <obconf directory>
./configure
make
sudo make install

finally I unpacked the latest stable tilp-version and did
tar -zxvf <tilp filename>
cd <tilp directory>
./configure
make
sudo make install

and now I can start tilp from a console by typing: tilp

Known issues:

For this to work you will need a working compiling-environment installed.

/ Onaka