Folks, I am only responding here as I have had a few emails in the background ... and I put this out there to guide learning for some... for many this will be old hat news !
There has been a lot of work take place with Hamlib since R 2.2.2 was released. WSJTX relies heavily on Hamlib. The packages of Hamlib used to compile and release the precompiled versions on release at https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html are built to versions of Hamlib that are snapshotted within the source tarball found within the source distribution found at https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-2.2.2.tgz . Bill G4WJS's maintains a repository at git://git.code.sf.net/u/bsomervi/hamlib that is used to standardise WSJTX development; all documentation within the WSJTX source tarball refers to Bill's repository. Bill's repository may or may not currently be synchronised with the code in the release tarball. Bill may be able to provide further guidance on this for those of us that are developing software. Yet it's a very sound programing practise to base bug-reporting off known snapshots of libraries. The "Master" live development Hamlib repository can be found at https://git.code.sf.net/p/hamlib/code . This is "bleeding edge" code as some would define it. I can foresee that Mike W9MDB and the Hamlib team are aiming to work to slating a formal Hamlib 4.0 release (superseding the 3.3 release around in most places). For WSJTX the preferred repo is that which Bill G4WJS maintains at git://git.code.sf.net/u/bsomervi/hamlib :-) Based on Mike's email (and for ongoing development, debugging, compatibility testing etc.) the "Master " repo should be used. You just replace references referred to in the WSJTX INSTALL readme file that refer to Bill's repo (i.e. git://git.code.sf.net/u/bsomervi/hamlib ) with those for the "Master" repo (i.e. https://git.code.sf.net/p/hamlib/code ). All is easy if you are compiling with Linux and Linux variants ... But for Windows compiles to the latest Hamlib source the simplest way is to use Greg KI7MT's JTSDK's. There is complexity here as there has been no formal maintenance of the Windows JTSDK's for 12 months. The JTSDK 3.0 as delivered/documented on the JTSDK download site (i.e. https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtsdk/ ) should compile a 32-bit Windows wsjtx ... There are some "patches" if you review the posts on [email protected] (Google search that as it is not an email address - i.e. https://groups.io/g/JTSDK ) if you want to compile your own Windows WSJTX using the "Master" repository. JTSDK 3.1 is also available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtsdk/ - but in order to "work easily" and "behave" just like the JTSDK 3.0 it needs a series of "experiment" patches posted at [email protected]. The README file attached with the "Experiment" scripts allow for configuration options to be set to be able to pull from the "preferred" WSJTX repo - Bill Somerville's Repository, the "Master" Hamlib Repository or even not to pull from a repository at all (and use the packaged Hamlib snapshot packaged in the WSJTX source). The best guidance for Mike W9MDB and the Hamlib team would be provided from people that are compiling their own Hamlib and WSJTX (and perhaps other software such as the FL-software) and not those using pre-compiled software or standardised library snapshots. Can I recommend that if you are responding to Mike's call please specify if you are using "new" Hamlib source or if you are using packaged WSJTX source and/or distributions? If you need help please ask or post here or respond directly via email. If you need help compiling WSJTX for yourself then please peruse the JTSDK @ GROUPS.IO site at https://groups.io/g/JTSDK first [ Note: as I have been using it as a blog to help as many as I possibly can and to avoid repetition as many cannot post here due to the lack of maintenance at that site ]. HAM - Help All mankind. We are here to help and progress learning. I also hope that the intent of this post is clear and that it is to help. 73 Steve I VK3VM / VK3SIR -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Berg <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2020 6:43 PM To: Black Michael <[email protected]>; WSJT software development <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Rig verification Re: Black Michael via wsjt-devel > 3009 Icom IC-706 20200614.0 > Untested RIG_MODEL_IC706 My 706 (no mk something) works flawlessly. (I used to get "rig communication problem" popups, but these are rare now and I think the problem is in the USB serial adapter not coping with HF, and not in the rig.) Christoph _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
