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Installing CASP on Windows Linux and macOS

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Installing CASP on Windows Linux and macOS

Installing CASP on Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS is simple and straight forward. This post shows how to install CASP on above three platforms.

Pre-Requisites

Desktop Computer or Laptop with following minimum operating system versions

  • Microsoft Windows-10 (64-bit)
  • Debian-11 (bullseye) based (64-bit): Typically Ubuntu-20.04 and BOSS-10 OS.
  • macOS-11 (Big Sur)

Procedure for Installing CASP on Windows OS

  1. Download latest version of CASP setup file (zip file) from our official webpage.
  2. Extract the contents of the zip file and navigate through the extracted folder.
  3. Open ‘Readme.txt’ file from the extracted folder and follow the instructions given in the file. Typical steps include:
    • Installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables
    • And running the CASP setup file to install CASP
  4. Installation may take a while as some of the CASP board support packages (BSPs) will also get installed along with CASP software.
  5. After successful install, CASP application folder is created in Windows Start menu along with a desktop icon.

Procedure for Installing CASP on Linux OS

  1. Download latest version of CASP setup file (zip file) from our official webpage.
  2. Extract the contents of the zip file and navigate through the extracted folder.
  3. Open ‘Readme.txt’ file from the extracted folder and follow the instructions given in the file. Typical steps include:
    • Installing pre-requisites such as GCC compiler tool chain and other dependencies mentioned in the file from the terminal commands.
    • Setting executable permissions to ‘casp_install.sh’ script file and running the file to install CASP.
  4. Installation may take a while as some of the CASP board support packages (BSPs) will also get installed along with CASP software.
  5. After successful install, CASP related icons are added to the operating system’s start menu. CASP will be installed in the home directory of the user.

Procedure for Installing CASP on macOS

  1. Download latest version of CASP setup file (dmg file) from our official webpage.
  2. Double click on the downloaded disk image file (.dmg) to mount the virtual disk.
  3. Browse the virtual disk to locate ‘casp_install’ file and double on it to start installing CASP. CASP will be installed in user’s ‘Applications’ directory. As such no administrative privileges are required during installation.
  4. Installation may take a while as some of the CASP board support packages (BSPs) will also get installed along with CASP software.
  5. After successful install, CASP icon is added to the operating system’s start menu.
  6. XCode Command Line Tools (CTL) are required to be installed for proper functioning of CASP. XCode CTL can be installed by typing ‘xcode-select –install’ in macOS terminal.

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