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Post subject: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:07 am
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Greetings,

I mentioned to Loren that I was writing an article about the Mustang and its utility for Linux users. Here 'tis :

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/plu ... er-mustang

The PLUG in the title is a Linux editor/librarian for Mustang presets, very handy for us tux-types. :)

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:10 am
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Good job! Excellent, honest review :D

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:31 am
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Cool stuff.

Being a command line type guy, I'd like to maybe write some utils for myself that would allow me to make multiple changes in one shot and I could use your lib for that. I don't have a machine running linux. Do you think there would be any issues with running it in Cygwin?


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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:13 pm
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Hi lesbeat
I'm the author of PLUG. If you have any questions or ideas you can contact me via project's page, IRC channel (#linfuse on irc.freenode.net) or this forum. :-)

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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:45 pm
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piorekf wrote:
Hi lesbeat
I'm the author of PLUG. If you have any questions or ideas you can contact me via project's page, IRC channel (#linfuse on irc.freenode.net) or this forum. :-)


In addition to lesbeat's question about Cygwin, I'd be curious if you'd expect your application to run in a VM or if you're aware of any gotchas that might prevent that (or recommended OS).

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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:59 pm
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Cygwin may be a problem because of USB communication. I don't know if applications running under Cygwin have unrestricted access to USB subsystem. But it runs OK on Virtual Machine. Actually I'm testing it on clean Ubuntu running on VM to be sure that it will run on any distribution and not only my development Gentoo.
As to recommended OS: It is written for any modern Linux distribution but I'm writing it with portability in mind. Both Qt4 and libusb, which are used in this project, are also available for Windows and Mac OS X so PLUG should successfully compile and run on any of these operating systems.
I would love to see it running on Windows or Mac OS X. :-D

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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:05 pm
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piorekf wrote:
Cygwin may be a problem because of USB communication. I don't know if applications running under Cygwin have unrestricted access to USB subsystem. But it runs OK on Virtual Machine. Actually I'm testing it on clean Ubuntu running on VM to be sure that it will run on any distribution and not only my development Gentoo.
As to recommended OS: It is written for any modern Linux distribution but I'm writing it with portability in mind. Both Qt4 and libusb, which are used in this project, are also available for Windows and Mac OS X so PLUG should successfully compile and run on any of these operating systems.
I would love to see it running on Windows or Mac OS X. :-D


Bummer... now I have another distraction besides actually working on my chops!
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Thanks piorekf! I will have to make time to play with PLUG now.

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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:23 pm
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piorekf wrote:
Cygwin may be a problem because of USB communication. I don't know if applications running under Cygwin have unrestricted access to USB subsystem. But it runs OK on Virtual Machine. Actually I'm testing it on clean Ubuntu running on VM to be sure that it will run on any distribution and not only my development Gentoo.
As to recommended OS: It is written for any modern Linux distribution but I'm writing it with portability in mind. Both Qt4 and libusb, which are used in this project, are also available for Windows and Mac OS X so PLUG should successfully compile and run on any of these operating systems.
I would love to see it running on Windows or Mac OS X. :-D


Yah, I figured if there was going to be any issues, it would probably with I/O (USB in this case). What OS is your Virtual Machine running on? I'm gonna guess Linux which won't help, but if you were running the VM inside a windows host, then that would a positive and in fact, I would just install VMWare Server if that's the case and install a linux VM and not bother with Cygwin.


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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:49 pm
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I'm running Ubuntu (guest) on Gentoo Linux (host) using VirtualBox.
But I don't think that changing host OS to windows will change anything. On the other hand I don't know if it behaves correctly on VMWare.

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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:22 am
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piorekf wrote:
Cygwin may be a problem because of USB communication. I don't know if applications running under Cygwin have unrestricted access to USB subsystem. But it runs OK on Virtual Machine. Actually I'm testing it on clean Ubuntu running on VM to be sure that it will run on any distribution and not only my development Gentoo.
As to recommended OS: It is written for any modern Linux distribution but I'm writing it with portability in mind. Both Qt4 and libusb, which are used in this project, are also available for Windows and Mac OS X so PLUG should successfully compile and run on any of these operating systems.
I would love to see it running on Windows or Mac OS X. :-D


:(
Well, it turns out that the version of Qt4 bundled with Cygwin is too low (4.5.x). Looks like PLUG needs 4.6.x? I tried compiling that but ran into some other linking errors. Oh well.

Tax day is coming up so I don't know how much time I'll have to spend on this, but piorekf, if this looks familiar feel free to make a suggestion; Google hasn't been very illuminating so far.

undefined reference to `_IID_IUnknown'

(many _IID_I* symbols are undefined; no idea which library is missing here).

Or, I may break down and try the VM thing instead.

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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:09 am
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Packages that are on the page are compiled using Qt 4.7.2.
PLUG directly uses only Qt-4 and libusb-1.0 so if any other libraries are needed than they are needed as dependencies for Qt. But if you get linking error this means that you have all the necessary header files but you are missing shared object files (.so).
Unfortunately I can't help you since I don't have any experience with programming/compiling under Cygwin or Windows. :(

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Post subject: Re: review of Mustang in Linux Journal
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:46 am
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If you're interested in PLUG for windows (and linux too), please read viewtopic.php?f=27&t=63439


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