README.md

MTCS

Public repository of the Mercator Telescope Control System software.

Restrictions with respect to the private repository of the MTCS software:

• The public repository is only periodically updated.
• The public repository does not contain TwinCAT licence files
• The public repository does not contain the SLALIB positional astronomy library

To compile the TwinCAT C++ part of the MTCS project, you need to install SLALIB:

• copy slalib.h, slamac.h and all *.c files to the MTCS/Slalib/slalib folder
• replace all mathematical functions by their real-time TwinCAT counterparts
  • sin -> sin_
  • cos -> cos_
  • tan -> tan_
  • atan2 -> atan2_
  • fabs -> fabs_
  • ...
• This can be done semi-automatically by the 'Find and Replace' functionality of Visual Studio.