Diagnostic Log and Trace Daemon Install and Smoke Test Walk Through

This post walks through installing the dlt-daemon on Ubuntu 16.04.2 and smoke testing it.

Install

1. Install the dependencies

Open a terminal and type:

Type 'Y' when prompted.

2. Clone the source

3. Build it

Run these commands:

Command output

Output from cmake ..

Output from make

Output from sudo make install

Output from sudo ldconfig

None

Output from sudo ldconfig -v (verbose option)

4. Create api documentation

First pull in Doxygen (this step is not listed in the instructions)

Type 'Y' when prompted.

Then type:

I created the Doxygen output and hosted it here.

Test it

1. Create dltdemo.c or clone https://github.com/pfefferz/dltdemo

dltdemo.c at link

2. Make it with

3. Test it with

Note: when I ran ./dltdemo without touching /tmp/dlt I got an error.

References

• The install instructions by Alexander Wenzel <Alexander.AW.Wenzel@bmw.de> are at link

• The user manual also by Alexander is at link

• Used the free HTML Escape / Unescape tool at link to put the post together

Additional Info

• The dlt-daemon comes from GENIVI. From link, GENIVI is a "nonprofit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software and providing open technology for the connected car." There members are listed here.

• The DLT Wiki can be found at this link.