[cups.development] Porting Cups to an embedded platform (Linux)

[Michael Sweet]

The only way to know is to try it and find out...


On Aug 27, 2012, at 10:22 AM, tirant <tirantloblanc77 at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Thanks Michael,
> 
> You are really helpful, as my experience with printing systems is very limited. We are currently using p910nd as our print system against /dev/usb/lp0 for the USB printer.
> 
> The Windows Client would have the driver already installed. Do you think would it be enough to redirect the file received from the client to /dev/usb/lp0? Or will we need another user space application to make it work?
> 
> 
> 
>> Tirant,
>> 
>> On Aug 27, 2012, at 7:53 AM, tirant <tirantloblanc77 at yahoo.es> wrote:
>>> Thanks Michael,
>>> 
>>> After changing options from -fPIE to -fPIC I could compile ippserver for my board.
>>> 
>>> Does it work as a standalone ippserver?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> I just need to redirect ipp print options to a raw printer in my system. The printer drivers should be installed in the client. Will I need to install other CUPS files?
>> 
>> No, but you will need to modify ippserver to send the print file someplace.  Right now ippserver accepts the file, sleeps for a few seconds to simulate processing of the job, and then removes the file.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Tirant,
>>>> 
>>>> You might want to look at the ippserver code in the test directory as a starting point.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:38 AM, tirant <tirantloblanc77 at yahoo.es> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I need to give IPP support to share USB printers in an embedded platform based on Linux 2.6/uclibc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> CUPS seems the only IPP opensource project I can find.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is it possible to port only the IPP fraction of CUPS? Are the requirements high? I don't think I am able to support libstdcpp in my embedded platform.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
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