Citizen CDS500 Printer, Rastor File not Compiling

[robert_61]

Hello:

This is my first posting. I am running Ubuntu 10.10

I bought a Citizen CDS500 receipt printer. I downloaded the driver file, extracted it and copied it to /work/ directory.

In order to compile the rastortocds500.c file, I executed the following command in the /work/ directory:

/work$ gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocds500 rastertocds500.c -lcupsimage -lcups


I received the following error message:
rastertocds500.c:37: fatal error: cups/cups.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Should I create the missing directory and try again or is there something else I am missing? The file cups/cups.h exists, do I need to point the compiler to those directories? How do I do that? I am somewhat familiar with Ubuntu and Linux, but have never had to run any compilation programs.

Thanks

[reed9]

First, have you installed the various build tools?

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Second, I think you may need to install libcups2-dev.

sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev

I tested it and was able to compile the drive on Arch, but they don't separate out devel packages. There was a warning, but that shouldn't be a deal breaker.

reed@reed-laptop ~/citizen % gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocds500 rastertocds500.c -lcupsimage -lcups
rastertocds500.c: In function ‘main’:
rastertocds500.c:435:2: warning: ‘cupsRasterReadHeader’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/cups/raster.h:339) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]

Obviously, I don't have the printer so I have no idea if it works.

[robert_61]

Thanks Archway.

I ran those two files

"sudo apt-get install build-essential"

and

"sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev" in the root directory

then changed to /work/ directory and executed /work$ gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocds500 rastertocds500.c -lcupsimage -lcups

and got this:

rastertocds500.c:39: fatal error: cups/raster.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

So I am stuck again. Any thoughts?

[reed9]

Gah, Ubuntu has too many development packages.

I found raster.h in libcupsimage2-dev.

sudo apt-get install libcupsimage2-dev

You'll probably also need libcupsys2-dev

sudo apt-get install libcupsys2-dev

[robert_61]

Well, we are getting closer.

I ran both programs in the /work/ directory and got this:

rastertocds500.c: In function ‘main’:
rastertocds500.c:435: warning: ‘cupsRasterReadHeader’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/cups/raster.h:321)
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file rastertocds500: Permission denied
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
ace@Front-Office:/work$

Thanks

[reed9]

I'm not sure on that one. ld is the linker program. Googling, the error can occur if the build environment isn't clean. Perhaps your previous attempts have created some files in there that are screwing things up.

I would create a new build directory and start over just moving the original tar ball in there.

[robert_61]

Thanks Reed(, looks like I am almost there.

The next step is:

Copy the CDS500.ppd file to /usr/share/cups/model/ directory.
Execute the following command.
cp CDS500.ppd /usr/share/cups/model

I cannot find the "/model" directory. Where should I copy this in unbuntu?

The next step is

Add a execute permission to the copied rastertocds500 file in the /usr/lib/cups/filter/
directory.
Execute the following command.
chmod +x /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertocds500

got this:

chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertocds500': No such file or directory

I know that the file is there in /usr/lib/cups/filter

I rebooted

Tried to install the printer and got this:

Printer 'CDS500-' requires the 'rastertocds500' program but it is not currently installed. Please install it before using this printer.


Thanks

[robert_61]

Thanks Reed9.

I finally got it to work. It just needs some tweaking.