HOWTO build Citizen CUPS printer driver on debian ARM

Citizen is the only company i know, that provides GPL CUPS printer drivers for their POS (=Point Of Sale) printers. !! respect for that !!

That opens the possibility to run a CUPS printer server on a CuBox, Raspberry Pi or other ARM platform.

By the way, Epson didn't even answer my request for a ARM binary. That's customer care! ;)

Here i a short description howto compile and install the driver on a CuBox running Debian:

1. install CUPS devel libraries:

   apt-get install libcups2-dev
   

2. download the latest source RPM package:

   wget http://www.citizen-systems.co.jp/english/support/download/printer/driver/cups/data_cups/ctzpos-cups-1.1.0-0.src.rpm
   

3. extract archive from rpm:

   rpm2cpio ctzpos-cups-1.1.0-0.src.rpm | cpio -idmv
   

4. extract archive and compile:

   tar -xvjf ctzpos-cups-1.1.0.tar.bz2
   cd ctzpos-cups-1.1.0
   gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocbm1k rastertocbm1k.c -lcupsimage -lcups
   gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocds500 rastertocds500.c -lcupsimage -lcups
   gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocts2kl rastertocts2kl.c -lcupsimage -lcups
   

5. install filters and ppd files:

   cp rastertocbm1k rastertocds500 rastertocts2kl /usr/lib/cups/filter/
   mkdir /usr/share/ppd/citizen
   cp *.ppd /usr/share/ppd/citizen/
   

6. restart CUPS:

   /etc/init.d/cups restart