BYB Spike Recorder

A neural recording app for the PC and Macs. Runs on Windows, Linux and OSX

Building instructions

To build BYB Spike Recorder follow these steps.

Installing dependencies

on Windows

Install Visual Studio Code.
Install the C/C++ extension for VS Code. You can install the C/C++ extension by searching for 'c++' in the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X).
Get the latest version of Mingw32 via MSYS2:
- Install MSYS2: https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2022-01-28/msys2-x86_64-20220128.exe
- Open MSYS2 terminal (Run "MSYS2 MSYS" from Start menu)
- Update the package database and base packages: pacman -Syu
- Update the rest of the base packages with: pacman -Su
- Install Ming32 with: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
Clone this repository.
Open Visual Studio Code in root folder of this repository.
Check in .vscode/task.json if absolute paths are OK.
Ctrl-Shift-B to build. The SpikeRecorder.exe should be built in win/build/ folder.

on Linux

Open Terminal and install git by typing:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core git-gui git-doc
$ git config –global user.name “your-username”
$ git config –global user.email “your@email.com”

Make a directory where you will keep git repositories Go to directory that you made and type:

$ git init

after that clone repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/BackyardBrains/Spike-Recorder.git

When we cloned repository we have to install tools that will enable us to compile the code:

$ sudo apt install make
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++

After that we have to install libraries:

$ sudo apt-get install -y libhidapi-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

(this works for Ubuntu for different systems it might differ: https://wiki.libsdl.org/Installation)

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev

The last dependency is libbass which isn’t available as a package in most distributions. Therefore you have to install it manually. To do that, download it from http://www.un4seen.com/download.php?bass24-linux and unpack it into a temporary directory.

$ mkdir /tmp/bass
$ cd /tmp/bass
$ unzip ~/path/to/bass24-linux.zip

and copy the library to the system library directory

$ sudo cp x64/libbass.so /usr/lib/

(or on a 32-bit system 'cp libbass.so /usr/lib')

go to directory Spike-Recorder and type:

$ make

on OS X

Open SpikeRecorder.xcodeproj in Xcode application.

Running

If everything worked, you can run it by

$ ./SpikeRecorder