New sudoku visualiser

[dkfellows]

This allows the new visualiser to be used so long as the sPyNNakerVisualisers package has been pip installed. The old visualiser can be used instead by setting the OLD_VIS environment variable (to anything) before running the sudoku script.

[rowleya]

Further to this, the install on Linux should work with the install of freeglut:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

or

sudo dnf install freeglut-devel

For windows, the user needs to download one of the following: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/tuft5p8b/PyOpenGL-3.1.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl or http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/tuft5p8b/PyOpenGL-3.1.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

They then need to run:

pip install PyOpenGL-3.1.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

or

pip install PyOpenGL-3.1.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

I assume that the Mac OS comes with the appropriate libraries...

[Christian-B]

This should be merged in BEFORE any PyNN0.8 changes.

I would then suggest creating and keeping a PyNN0.7 branch

[rowleya]

Note that the old visualiser is no less likely to run than the new one. That said, on Windows, the dll files required are included and the rest of the libraries are statically compiled in. Not sure about why the old visualiser works on Linux when the new one doesn't...

[rowleya]

Ahh of course weird permissions are a standard issue for ITS installed machines :)

[rowleya]

IntroLab instructions updated - note that OSX is supposed to have glut already so no additional instructions are provided. This needs checking!

[dkfellows]

When I developed the changed code on my laptop, it Just Worked™, but that could have been because of something else that I have installed in the past. I also have a full compiler toolchain (several in fact) so installing from source isn't a barrier for me. All in all, it works on a system with a lot of customisations, but I can't say much about any other.

Someone else, with a more conventional configuration, needs to check.

[alan-stokes]

you mean like @sara-es whom has a mac which is as fresh as it can be?

[sara-es]

Worked fine for me! (after fiddling with PyNN8 modules a bit)

[rowleya]

Yay! In that case, my updated instructions in the IntroLab are fine.

[alan-stokes]

those devious pynn 0.8 modules. least we got one os covered, ill check the linux ones shortly. once i catch up on notifications, and labelling