The following is a step-by-step procedure to get started using EEROS on your host computer.

We use Ubuntu on the host machine. Other distributions are supported but not documented here.

1. You have to patch the kernel with a realtime patch as described in https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page. It is possible to work without the realtime patch. However, the latency of the system will be much worse and will depend greatly on the load of other programs running on your system.
2. Install the following packages on your machine

   $ apt-get install git make cmake g++

   Please make sure to use a g++ version of at least 5.3.

3. In order to be able to write your own EEROS programs or alter existing example applications, you could use any text editor. However, we recommend to use an integrated development environment such as https://www.kdevelop.org/. Get the program with

   $ apt-get install kdevelop

4. Fetch the EEROS scripts and checkout the branch for the host

   $ git clone https://github.com/eeros-project/eeros-build-scripts.git eeros-project
   $ cd eeros-project
   $ git checkout host

After this you can continue with Writing EEROS Applications for the Host.