[asterisk-dev] Source Code Questions

[Klaus Darilion]

Someone recently posted a link here to the download the GPL software 
from the Linksys SPA400. Out of curiosity I downloaded it and there was 
an Asterisk 1.0.7 in the tarball.

regards
klaus



Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
> ----- "Steve Wofford" <SW at uctrlit.com> wrote:
> 
>> Two part question.
>>
>> We have a Linksys/Cisco SPA400 which is an Asterisk box.
>>  
>> 1.       How can I find the version? I have the source code
>> downloaded. 
> 
> If you don't know he version, how did you download the source code?
> 
> I doubt it is using asterisk itself. If it was, Linksys would be
> required to make their version of the running code available to you.
> 
> At best, I am expecting you have firmware. Firmware is compiled
> source code. You will not get much usefulness out of looking at the
> firmware if you are asking the level of questions you are here. You
> would already know these things.
> 
>> 2.       I only have windows no Linux. What would be the best IDE to
>> use
>> to review the files. I have Visual Studio, but not sure about if this
>> will do the job.
> 
> Visual Studio would only be helpful if you had code written for the 
> windows platform. There are plenty of other free IDEs out there.
> 
> For the short term, you should just use some text editor to look at the
> code. notepad, wordpad, or such will display it. If you are looking at
> the firmware, it will look like a bunch of garbage thrown around.
>