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1 Installation location
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2 =====================
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4 The present FC SIM tools package is part of the greater FreeCalypso software
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5 family, therefore, these tools are designed to be installed in the
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6 /opt/freecalypso directory hierarchy on your system. Changing this install
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7 location is NOT ALLOWED: if you try to change it, you will break things, and I,
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8 the author of this software, will not provide any help or support whatsoever to
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9 anyone who seeks to change our fixed installation location.
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11 Building and installing FC SIM tools
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12 ====================================
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14 In order to compile and install our tools, follow these steps:
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16 1: Run 'make' as a regular user (not root) to compile the software.
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18 2: Decide if you prefer to have the /opt/freecalypso directory and everything
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19 under it to be owned by root or by your non-root uid.
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21 If you prefer /opt/freecalypso to be root-owned:
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23 3A: Run 'make install' as root; the install rule in the
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24 Makefile will do mkdir -p /opt/freecalypso as its first step.
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26 4A: You are done!
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28 If you prefer /opt/freecalypso to be owned by your "regular" non-root uid:
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30 3B: Become root just to create the /opt/freecalypso directory and chown it
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31 to your non-root uid.
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33 4B: Run 'make install' as your regular uid; it should succeed because you
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34 should have made yourself the owner of /opt/freecalypso with full write
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35 permission in the previous step.
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37 5B: You are done!
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39 fc-simtool and other binaries will be installed in /opt/freecalypso/bin; you
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40 can either add this directory to your PATH or make symlinks from /usr/bin or
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41 /usr/local/bin or wherever.
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43 Including or excluding pcsc back end
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44 ====================================
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46 The main body of software in the present package (fc-simtool, fc-uicc-tool and
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47 all accessory programs except pcsc-specific ones) has zero compile-time
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48 dependencies, needing only a working C compiler, standard system header files
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49 under /usr/include, and libc. However, one of the 3 card access back ends
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50 supported by our tools is pcsc, and that back end requires libpcsclite and its
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51 header files in order to compile.
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53 You can include or exclude this pcsc back end depending on your needs. If you
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54 wish to use a professional card reading/programming station like HID Omnikey
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55 3121 or its pocket sibling Omnikey 6121 (both of which are USB CCIDs), then you
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56 will need to go through the pain of getting pcsc-lite up and running on your
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57 system, including a working installation of libpcsclite and its header files -
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58 going through this pcsc-lite software stack is the only way to operate these
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59 USB CCIDs. OTOH, if you are going to be a more casual (not professional) user
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60 of FC SIM tools, only needing to occasionally poke at a SIM card inside your
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61 Calypso phone or perhaps in a serial SIM reader, without ever using professional
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62 card readers of the type that require pcsc-lite, then you can simply exclude the
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63 part of our software suite that needs pcsc-lite (the pcsc back end), and enjoy
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64 traditional FreeCalypso software with zero compile-time dependencies.
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66 To exclude pcsc from your build, change the standard 'make' and 'make install'
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67 commands as follows:
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69 make PCSC=
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70 make PCSC= install
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72 CC= and CFLAGS= selection
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73 =========================
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75 Our Makefile hierarchy is set up to build with CC=gcc and CFLAGS=-O2 by default.
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76 If you need to change either or both of these selections, you can do it by
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77 adding CC= and/or CFLAGS= on the make invokation line, for example:
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79 make CC=mygcc CFLAGS="-g -O2 -whatever-options"
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81 Porting to systems other than Linux
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84 Most of the present software is written to be generic to any Unix, but the
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85 Mother currently uses only Linux, thus no other systems have been tested. One
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86 component that is known to be Linux-specific is the serial SIM reader back end,
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87 which is written to work with arbitrary UART baud rates and not just RS-232
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88 standard ones like 9600 bps - see doc/Serial-SIM-readers for the details.
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90 Staged installs
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91 ===============
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93 As already explained above, our FC SIM tools need to be installed under
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94 /opt/freecalypso on your system in order to function correctly, and this runtime
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95 location is not changeable. However, some users have requested an ability to
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96 do a staged install: have the 'make install' operation install the finished
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97 tree of files in some staging location, with the expectation that it will be
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98 subsequently moved to /opt/freecalypso by some other mechanism. One use case
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99 that has been presented to us was automated building of binary distribution
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100 packages on a build host where writing to /opt/freecalypso is not allowed.
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102 If you need to make a staged install of this sort, you can do it like this:
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104 make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/me/my-fc-staging-area
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106 Please note that this INSTALL_PREFIX= scheme changes *only* the location where
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107 'make install' will deposit the installable files; it does NOT change the
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108 location where our programs will look for other programs and helper files: the
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109 latter location is hard-coded as /opt/freecalypso is bazillion places throughout
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110 our code base.