Machinekit-HAL

Alan Thomason

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Dec 9, 2022, 7:04:24 PM12/9/22

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Is EMC required to run Machinekit-HAL. I'm confused because I thought that Machinekit was forked from LinuxCNC, which at one time was EMC. If anyone else could explain this I would appreciate it....Thanks...Alan

Eric Keller

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Dec 10, 2022, 10:10:24 AM12/10/22

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It's a fork. What leads you to believe that lcnc would be required?
Eric Keller
Boalsburg Pennsylvania

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 7:04 PM 'Alan Thomason' via Machinekit
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alanmt...@icloud.com

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Dec 10, 2022, 5:01:19 PM12/10/22

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Thanks John! It is a big help to understand some of the background. Alan

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Subject: Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit-HAL

MachineKit-HAL is a standalone project that doesn’t require EMC. There is another project EMCApplication (another fork of LinuxCNC) that provides a G code interpreter, trajectory planner, etc. that would be useful for controlling a CNC machine. EMCApplication uses the HAL environment provided by MachineKit-HAL. If you are only interested in the real-time HAL environment without all the CNC control features from EMCApplication, you can use MachineKit-HAL on its own.

John Allwine

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On Dec 9, 2022, at 5:04 PM, 'Alan Thomason' via Machinekit <machi...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Is EMC required to run Machinekit-HAL. I'm confused because I thought that Machinekit was forked from LinuxCNC, which at one time was EMC. If anyone else could explain this I would appreciate it....Thanks...Alan

Alan Thomason

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Dec 10, 2022, 5:08:28 PM12/10/22

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Hi There...

My attempts to get Machinekit up and running have so far not been successful, and in trying to find out why I saw a couple of references to EMC application on this site. So I thought maybe that was the key, that there was something needed from another related repository. I think I'm straight now, I need to keep working with building machinekit-hal.