Beta Test / Technical

[rgleason]

Partial Anwser to the problem. This is very bizarre. When I Right click on the blank page and pick "View page Source" all the HTML shows, and it is the correct page.


So it is not the Opencpn ISP blocking me out.

I wonder what is causing this?


Same thing seems to happen on the phone using Firefox without wifi on, page is blank, but I haven't found where to select "view page source"

[CarinaPDX]

In Firefox, select hamburger icon (3 stacked lines) in the upper right corner. Select " Web Developer" from the drop down menu, then "Page Source".

[rgleason]

Removal of all Firefox cache, cookies, history, etc. did not fix it.
Removal of all Addons did not fix it.
Removal of all Extension might have helped in addition to accessing the wiki website and working through the admin menus.


I've been able to work on several pages for the wiki, working around some blank screen events. I still really do not know what the problem is, but can work around it now I think.

[P_Dub]

Maybe its time to start thinking of a new ed.; the last was on th 23rth of march.

[rgleason]

The Manual is working now
https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...etting_started


Reverted back to old bootstrap3 template. Fixed the blank screen.

[rgleason]

The Opencpn Manual is working again with both the top CkgEdit icon and the 5th down DWedit icon, we have gone back to the "Dokuwiki" template because "bootstrap3" seemed to be causing loss of access to critical icons at the top (no dropdown for the wrench or the Admin body). We will leave it like this for awhile.

[Neddy]

Originally Posted by LeaseOnLife

Hi Dave

I found opencpn supports the following chart formats. Can you confirm, add where needed and also put this in the help ?

BSB / RNC (what versions? BSB 1.1, BSB 2.0, BSB 3.0 ??)
CM93/2,
GEO (what versions? GEO/NOS, GEO/NO1 ??)
S57 (ENC)

The help does mention S57 as being the equivalent of CM93/3. Is that statement correct? I think CM93/3 is encrypted !?!

I have cm93/3. only opens in Maxsea 10.3 and a small Norwigan soaftwear. Been told it needs a dll file to be able to use on Open CPN????

[bcn]

CM93/3 can't be used under OpenCPN today.
Would require some plug-in for this actual C-Map format.

[rgleason]

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do..._manual:charts

[rgleason]

To install cmake should I add the --classic and continue?

rgleason@rgleason-VirtualBox:~/OpenCPN/build$ sudo snap install cmake
error: This revision of snap "cmake" was published using classic confinement
and thus may perform arbitrary system changes outside of the security
sandbox that snaps are usually confined to, which may put your system
at risk.

If you understand and want to proceed repeat the command including
--classic.

[rgleason]

I installed cmake using --classic. Then following https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...buntu_mint_etc


Then installed the Ubuntu Libraries and Programs. Downloaded source code after installing git. Then built it. I think it completed properly. Final message was wmm completed. It took about 1.5 hours. Now how do I start OpenCPN, I have looked user/local but I just have local and it does not seem to be there. The OpenCPN directory is under Home/OpenCPN and build is under that.

[transmitterdan]

Run

sudo make install

In the build folder. Then O should be available from the “start” menu.

[rgleason]

Installed with $ sudo make package
and tried the alpha catalog for plugins, but neither WeatherRouting or TestPlugin appear. Something must be wrong with the xml.

[rgleason]

Alec has made scripts to build both mingw and msvc.

I understand that the mingw compile is experimental, but it compiles.

Sean liked mingw because he could run a cross-compiler variant of the MinGW tools, on GNU/Linux, to check plugins for deployment on MS-Windows. However the MS VS compiler is most popular.

Supporting mingw in the builds would require (slightly) more work, rather than supporting just the Microsoft Visual Studio version, however there may be some other advantages.

Should the mingw builds for the plugins be dropped or not? Your thoughts would be appreciated. Think about support vs the advantage of compiling using linux...


PS Mingw does not look very current.

[transmitterdan]

Does Mingw support XP? If so maybe we should use it to build production plugins. Visual Studio will drop support for building XP executables and DLLs “real soon now”.

Lots of Unix variants are “old”. Think Centos and it’s ilk. Any LTS environment is not going to be “new”.