====== WComp on Phidget's platforms======

{{:public_namespace:phidgets.jpg?|}} As on any Linux platform, WComp needs Mono to execute C# code. The phidget packages' repository contains Mono, so we will install this in order to use WComp.

You can go along with this tutorial to install the environment needed by WComp on a Phidget platform or use the {{:public_namespace:td_wcomp_et_phidget_107x_2h.pdf|French Tutorial}}.

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===== Update your Phidget SBC 107x  =====

First of all, you must update your system with the most recent packages.  After being loggued as super user (root), you must upgrade it using:
<code>apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade</code>
  * Go to the web interface of your platform and go to //System / Packages// and check //Include Full Debian Repository// and //Save Changes//. Then //Refresh Available Packages// and //Upgrade All Packages//. Your system is now uptodate.

You can also add some useful tools with the following commands:
<code>apt-get install apt-utils dialog deborphan wget unzip</code>

After this update and upgrade of your system, you can suppress all unuseful packages (the own downloaded and some that are not useful anymore) with the following commands:
<code>
apt-get clean
apt-get purge $(deborphan)
</code>
===== Install Mono =====

==== Install Mono on Phidget SBC 1072 ====

In order to install Mono on Phidget SBC 1072, do the following:
  * Update the system installed on your platform.
  * Install the mono environment:
<code>apt-get install mono-runtime mono-gmcs libmono-system-web2.0-cil</code>

==== Install Mono on Phidget SBC 1073 ====

On Phidget 1073, you must not use the mono release 2.10.8 from Debian Wheezy distribution for ARM. There is a problem with this release on ARM architecture (don't know if it's on any ARM architecture or one the wait Debian compiled the project).

In order to install Mono on Phidget SBC 1073, you must use the mono release from the testing Debian repository.

First of all, you must configure you Debian distribution to del with stable and testing distributions. Add the following files to your system:
  * ''/etc/apt/sources.list.d/testing'':
<code>
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
</code>

To give the priority to the stable packages, you must create the following files
  * ''/etc/apt/preferences.d/stable.pref'' :
<code>
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 995
</code>
  * ''/etc/apt/preferences.d/testing.pref'' :
<code>
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 750
</code>

It's now posible to add the most recent version of mono (from the Debian's testing distribution) with the followinf command:
<code>
apt-get clean
apt-get install mono-4.0-gac/testing mono-gac/testing mono-runtime-common/testing mono-runtime-sgen/testing mono-runtime/testing mono-mcs/testing mono-gmcs/testing libmono-system-web2.0-cil/testing libc6/testing libc6-dev/testing libmono-corlib2.0-cil/testing libmono-sqlite2.0-cil/testing libmono-system-data-linq2.0-cil/testing libmono-system-data2.0-cil/testing libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil/testing libmono-wcf3.0a-cil/testing libmono2.0-cil/testing libmono-system-core4.0-cil/testing libmono-microsoft-csharp4.0-cil/testing
</code>

If during the installation, you encounter a problem of memory space when installing the packages, you can override the installation process by manually installing the necessary packages after downloading:
<code>
dpkg –i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
</code>

Now you should have a working Mono environment on you Phidget SBC.

===== Install Phidget libraries for Mono =====

==== Install libraries for Phidget SBC 1072 ====
<code>
apt-get install libphidget21-dev
</code>

==== Install libraries for Phidget SBC 1073 ====
<code>
apt-get clean
apt-get install libphidget21-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
</code>

If during the installation you encounter a memory problem, you can manually install the downloaded packages with the following command:
<code>
dpkg –i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
</code>

===== Configure Phidget libraries for Mono on Phidge SBC 107x =====

If you already installed the needed tools (wget and unzip), you can download the needed packages with the following commands:
<code>
wget http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/Phidget21-windevel.zip
unzip Phidget21-windevel.zip
</code>

Then, to add the library to the Mono GAC:
<code>
gacutil -i phidget21-windevel/Phidget21.NET.dll
ln -s /usr/lib/mono/gac/Phidget21.NET/*/* /usr/lib/mono/2.0/Phidget21.NET.dll
</code>

===== WComp on Phidget SBC 107x=====

As the last step of the overall process, to install WComp, you juste have to unzip ''SharpWCompContainerMonoLinux'' where you want, to be able to us it. To get WComp for Linux, you can [[contact_us|contact us]]. We do not deliver Linux over the Web.