Has anyone run Scantool on a Pclos laptop or netbook?

[demag]

I have bought an ELM 327 OBD II codereader for my car as I have a "check emissions" warning on the dash. It came with a cd with free diagnostic software. One of the many programs on the disk was "Scantool.exe". Obviously a Windows executable. But there is also a version which is reputed to run on Linux which is "Scantool.src". There seem to be a few people running this on U***** without trouble. Has anyone used it on Pclos at all? Or can anyone tell me how to compile it?

Thanks.

[Old-Polack]

I have bought an ELM 327 OBD II codereader for my car as I have a "check emissions" warning on the dash. It came with a cd with free diagnostic software. One of the many programs on the disk was "Scantool.exe". Obviously a Windows executable. But there is also a version which is reputed to run on Linux which is "Scantool.src". There seem to be a few people running this on U***** without trouble. Has anyone used it on Pclos at all? Or can anyone tell me how to compile it?

Thanks.

Most source packages have README or INSTALL instructions included. Have you looked?

[Joble]

It shouldn't be to difficult, depending on the dependencies.

[nerdful1]

I hope I can help.

I've run my car analyzer under wine in pclinux, I think.A year ago next month. But it is one I built myself.

In any case having the tool and the use of forums here and forums for my car I easily saved myself 2500.00 on a car repair.

please pm me if you are in grief about your car, or here in public if the mods don't mind. and in long run it would be good to promote PCLinuxOS as another money saving thing to promote in your neighborhood.

[travisN000]

According to their website, you will need allegra and dzcomm as dependencies, and according to the following, you will also need to alter the make file a little 
(..it is for an older version of red hat; but the steps should be similar for PCL):

https://www.scantool.net/forum/index.php?topic=825.0




Info on a mandriva rpm / srpm for allegro (first dependency) is here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12992352/dir/mandriva_2010/com/allegro-4.2.2-5mdv2010.0.i586.rpm.html

Newer allegro sources are here (if you want to update the srpm before rebuilding):  http://alleg.sourceforge.net/


dzcomm source is here: http://dzcomm.sourceforge.net/


..keep us posted as to your progress, and don't hesitate to ask for help! 
 (If this works I might just go buy the hardware and try it out myself!)