Saver5

CNC upload/download program

Docs

• Description of program upload/download from the Citizen-Cincom manual can be found the docs folder under CNC_IO.pdf
• The source code for the previous upload/download program (Saver3) can be found in docs under Saver3.bas. The previous version was written in Visual Basic for Windows XP

To run the Demo

You need to have Go and gcc installed

On Mac/Linux*

• Note: on linux it may be neccessary to install some graphics libraries to provide the neccessary headers for compilation

$ go build
$ ./Saver5

On Windows

• Note that you will need to make sure mingw-gcc is installed and that $CC (the C compiler environment variable) is set correctly
• For Instructions on installing mingw-gcc, see here

$ CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=windows CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc go build
$ Saver5.exe

For more info on compiling fyne gui libraries, see fyne docs

TODO for this group

Try to compile and run the program

Useful links

• Serial Port Basics
• An article on debugging issues with usb to rs232 adapters can be found here