Porting Cups to an embedded platform (Linux)

tirant tirantloblanc77 at yahoo.es
Wed Aug 29 00:30:29 PDT 2012


Thanks, it is working right now :) I had some problems with a Windows XP client, but besides that, everything works perfectly.

> 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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