Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Hernalsteen
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Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
Hi Scott, sorry, forgot to mention. Can you build from either the HEAD of the wsjtx-1.4 branch or the HEAD of the trunk ^/branches/wsjtx 73 Bill G4WJS. On 23/10/2014 01:15, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 23/10/2014 01:09, Scott Hernalsteen wrote: >> Hi Bill, > Hi Scott, >> I’d be happy to help. >

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 23/10/2014 01:09, Scott Hernalsteen wrote: > Hi Bill, Hi Scott, > > I’d be happy to help. > > Here is what I have for Xcode: > >Version: 6.1 (6A1052d) >Location: /Applications/Xcode.app >Applications: >Xcode: 6.1 (6604) >Instruments: 6.1 (56160) >SDKs: >O

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Hernalsteen
Hi Bill, I’d be happy to help. Here is what I have for Xcode: Version: 6.1 (6A1052d) Location: /Applications/Xcode.app Applications: Xcode:6.1 (6604) Instruments: 6.1 (56160) SDKs: OS X: 10.10:(14A382) 10.9: (13F26) iOS: 8.1: (12B411) iOS Simula

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Michael Black
FYI...Windows 7 32-bit v1.5.0-devel R4555...happily decoding. Mike W9MDB -Original Message- From: Joe Taylor [mailto:j...@princeton.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:21 PM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status Thanks for all the comments. I

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 21:11, Scott Hernalsteen wrote: > Hi John, Joe and Bill, Hi Scott, > > I can report that WSJTX 1.4-rc2 compiles on OS X 10.10, with no changes > required. Good news, what Xcode version do you have and have you installed any SDKs other than the the ones in the Xcode install? I would

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Hernalsteen
Hi John, Joe and Bill, I can report that WSJTX 1.4-rc2 compiles on OS X 10.10, with no changes required. The only issue I have when building from source is the same I had on 10.9: The first time I run the command: cmake --build . --target install -- -kj I get the following error: Downloading kv

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread ki7mt
Hi Bill, See below. On 10/22/2014 12:59 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 22/10/2014 19:12, Joe Taylor wrote: >> Bill -- > Hi Joe, >> Version 1.12 is a drop-in replacement for v1.11, on all platforms. The comments in extract.F90 are obsolete (and should be removed). I have not yet

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 19:27, John Nelson wrote: > Hi Joe and Bill, Hi John, > > I'm back home today from a wonderful time on the Western Isles (apart from > the residue of hurricane Gonzalo). Ploughing through hundreds of emails. Welcome back, glad you had a great break. > > Joe: I'll have computers up

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 19:12, Joe Taylor wrote: > Bill -- Hi Joe, > >>> Version 1.12 is a drop-in replacement for v1.11, on all platforms. The >>> comments in extract.F90 are obsolete (and should be removed). I have >>> not yet built kvasd 1.12 for OSX and ARM, so that still needs to be done. >> I'm not s

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi John, Welcome home! > Joe: I'll have computers up and running tomorrow so you can have > a Mac OSX platform to build KVASD 1.12 as before. I'll send > connection details tomorrow. No hurry... I need to be in Chicago tomorrow, will be home again late Saturday. Next week is good enough.

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread John Nelson
Hi Joe and Bill, I'm back home today from a wonderful time on the Western Isles (apart from the residue of hurricane Gonzalo). Ploughing through hundreds of emails. Joe: I'll have computers up and running tomorrow so you can have a Mac OSX platform to build KVASD 1.12 as before. I'll s

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Bill -- >> Version 1.12 is a drop-in replacement for v1.11, on all platforms. The >> comments in extract.F90 are obsolete (and should be removed). I have >> not yet built kvasd 1.12 for OSX and ARM, so that still needs to be done. > I'm not sure that is correct. There is commented out code in ex

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 18:45, Joe Taylor wrote: > Ralf Kötter http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-451-principles-of-digital-communication-ii-spring-2005/lecture-notes/lecture-10-reed-solomon-codes/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Taylor
One more comment. G4WJS wrote: > Static linking LGPL libraries into a closed source executable is allowed > but I believe that the means to relink the executable must be provided > somewhere. In practice that means making the object code of the closed > source parts available. > > The above LGPL c

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 18:20, Joe Taylor wrote: Hi Joe, > Thanks for all the comments. > > I agree that for consistency we should provide kvasd v1.12 for all > platforms. We should use static linking of code that implements the > patented (and licensed) Koetter-Vardy algorithm, but dynamic linking of > al

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 17:50, Bill Somerville wrote: > The complexity of making object code available might be not worth the > trouble and dynamic linking may be easiest IMHO. AFAIK dynamic linking > is the way that this is done in almost all proprietary products. The practicalities of dynamic linked vary

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Thanks for all the comments. I agree that for consistency we should provide kvasd v1.12 for all platforms. We should use static linking of code that implements the patented (and licensed) Koetter-Vardy algorithm, but dynamic linking of all compiler and system libraries. Version 1.12 is a drop

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
>> Is static linking of these a bad idea, for any licensing reasons? (I'm >> fairly clueless about these things...) > Static linking GPL libraries into a closed source executable is not allowed. > > Static linking LGPL libraries into a closed source executable is allowed > but I believe that the

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Somerville
On 22/10/2014 16:36, Joe Taylor wrote: > Hi Greg and all, Hi Joe, > > KI7MT: >> I know you've been busy with WSJT-X updates, but was wondering if you >> came to any conclusions on KVASD v1.12 decoder (32/64) and if there will >> be a central location to pull the decoder from for the apps that use i

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread ki7mt
Hi Joe, All, On 10/22/2014 09:36 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: > Hi Greg and all, > > KI7MT: >> I know you've been busy with WSJT-X updates, but was wondering if you >> came to any conclusions on KVASD v1.12 decoder (32/64) and if there will >> be a central location to pull the decoder from for the apps

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Michael Black
c-link kvasd to your hearts content... Mike W9MDB -Original Message- From: Joe Taylor [mailto:j...@princeton.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:36 AM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status Hi Greg and all, KI7MT: > I know you've been busy

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Greg and all, KI7MT: > I know you've been busy with WSJT-X updates, but was wondering if you > came to any conclusions on KVASD v1.12 decoder (32/64) and if there will > be a central location to pull the decoder from for the apps that use it? I presently have versions of kvasd v1.12 compiled f

[wsjt-devel] KVASD 1.12 status

2014-10-21 Thread ki7mt
Hi Joe, I know you've been busy with WSJT-X updates, but was wondering if you came to any conclusions on KVASD v1.12 decoder (32/64) and if there will be a central location to pull the decoder from for the apps that use it? At present, I've been using the decoder located in the trunk ..wsjt/kv