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How to use MSCL

Drivers

Make sure you have the Windows/Linux drivers for our products installed. If you have installed our desktop software, SensorConnect on Windows, then the drivers were installed with it. If you want to install the drivers seperately, please visit our drivers page.

Windows

Download the pre-built Windows binaries.

Python

You can copy the mscl.py and _mscl.pyd files into a path where python searches for modules. If you do this, you can simply use mscl from anywhere by adding import mscl to the top of your python files. To find where Python looks searches for modules on your system, print sys.path in your python environment.

Alternatively, you can import mscl by adding the full mscl path to sys.path:

import sys
sys.path.append('<pathToMsclPythonFiles>')
import mscl

.NET

Add MSCL_Managed.dll as a Reference to your project

Place MSCL.dll next to your executable

Set your Platform Target to either x86 or x64

C++

Note: The C++ MSCL library depends on Boost 1.68. You can download and install the pre-built Boost libraries (recommended), or build boost from source.

Point your compiler to the MSCL headers and lib files:

  • Include directory: C++/include
  • Link directory: C++/lib/x64/Release
  • Link to: MSCL.lib

Point your compiler to the Boost headers and lib files:

  • Include directory: <boostInstallPath>/boost (or whatever folder contains the boost .hpp files)
  • Link directory: <boostInstallPath>/lib64_msvc-14.0 (or whatever folder contains the boost .lib files)
  • Link to: libboost_system-vc140-mt-s-x64-1_68.lib (or equivalent for your build environment)

Linux

Download the pre-built Linux packages.

To install the Ubuntu/Debian (.deb) package, run:

sudo dpkg -i <PACKAGE_NAME>.deb     #install MSCL
sudo apt install -f                 #install dependencies

Note: to uninstall MSCL, run: sudo dpkg --remove <PACKAGE_NAME>.deb

To install the CentOS/Redhat (.rpm) package, run:

sudo yum install ./<PACKAGE_NAME>.rpm   #install MSCL and it's dependencies

Note: to uninstall MSCL, run: sudo yum remove <PACKAGE_NAME>.rpm

Udev

Download the udev file from our ROS driver, and copy it to /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/100-microstrain.rules on Ubuntu or /etc/udev/rules.d/100-microstrain.rules on debian, CentOS, or Redhat

Once the udev rule is installed, the devices will appear as follows in the file system, where {serial} is the serial number of the device:

  • /dev/microstrain_main_{serial} - All GX5 devices, and the main port of GQ7 devices
  • /dev/microstrain_aux_{serial} - The aux port of GQ7 devices
  • /dev/microstrain_rtk_{serial} - 3DM-RTK devices

Python

After installing the package, a folder was created in /usr/share/. The name of the folder varies depending on which package you install (/usr/share/python2-mscl or /usr/share/python3-mscl)

Inside this folder, there will be two files:

  • mscl.py
  • _mscl.so

If you copy these files into a path where python searches for modules, you can simply use mscl from anywhere by adding import mscl to the top of your python files. To find where Python looks searches for modules on your system, print sys.path in your python environment.

Alternatively, you can import mscl by adding the full mscl path to sys.path:

import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/share/<PYTHON_MSCL_FOLDER_NAME>/')
import mscl

C++

After installing the package, a folder was created in /usr/share/ called c++-mscl.

This folder contains the MSCL headers, as well as a boost folder with the Boost library headers and libraries. You will need to tell your compiler to include these MSCL and Boost headers, as well as link to libmscl.so.

For example: g++ -I/usr/share/c++-mscl/source -I/usr/share/c++-mscl/Boost/include YourFile.cpp -o YourProgram -L/usr/share/c++-mscl -lmscl -lstdc++ -std=c++11