In order to make the R5560 working in linux you need to download and compile the R5560 SDK

SDK Compiling and install

Pre Requisites

Download R5560x from github: https://github.com/NuclearInstruments/r5560_sdk

Pre Requisites

R5560 SDK requires gcc build chain and LibZMQ to be compiled

Install following tools:

sudo apt-get install libtool pkg-config build-essential autoconf automake
sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev

Compile and install library

Continue with the command:

make

Install the library in /usr/local/lib

cd Debug
sudo cp libr5560.so.1.0.0 /usr/local/lib
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s libr5560.so.1.0.0 libr5560.so

Reload Linux library database

sudo ldconfig

Compile the Sci-Compiler generated library and example

Enter in library/C/lib folder

Continue with the command:

make

The result of the make will be a compiled file (example) and so library in the sub-folder gcc.