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Welcome

This wiki will walk you through everything you need to know about setting up, building, and using MEL. It has been intentionally written for those who may be unfamiliar with C++, building from source, cross-compilers, git, etc. The guide assumes a Windows host development environment.

Native Windows DAQ Users (Quanser and NI DAQmx)

1. Getting Started
2. Building MEL
3. Creating MEL Projects
4. Setting Up a VS Code IDE

NI Linux Real-Time Device Users (myRIO and cRIO)

1. Getting Started
2. Installing NI Software
3. Building MEL
4. Working over SSH & SFTP
5. Creating MEL Projects
6. Setting Up a VS Code IDE

Basic Usage Tutorials

1. Console I/O
2. Handling Time
3. DAQ
4. Mechatronic Primitives
5. Logging and Data Collection
6. Communication

MELScope

1. Getting Started