Merge pull request #188 from Hrily/master

Update README

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c485976..efb0e89 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,9 +5,21 @@ The main aim of this project will be to port core functionalities of Xcos to a b
 
 ## Installation
 
-* Download the sources of Scilab 5.5.2 32 bit from `https://github.com/kamakshidasan/scilab`
-* After building, change the Scilab path in SendLog.py
-* Host on Flask and run index.html
+1. First clone following repositories:
+
+	`git clone https://github.com/FOSSEE/xcos-on-web`
+
+	`git clone https://github.com/Hrily/scilab`
+
+2. Then go into `scilab` folder and run following commands:
+
+	`./configure`
+
+	`make`
+
+3. Then run `SendLog.py` from `xcos-on-web` folder to host the xcos on localhost i.e. `127.0.0.1:8001/`
+
+(Note that the directories `scilab` and `xcos-on-web` must be in same directory.)
 
 ## License information
 This project has a Creative Commons Public License.
diff --git a/SendLog.py b/SendLog.py
index 9f0af39..3be5d3e 100755
--- a/SendLog.py
+++ b/SendLog.py
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ app = Flask(__name__, static_folder='webapp/')
 
 # This is the path to the upload directory
 app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'] = 'uploads/'
+# Make the upload directory if not available
+subprocess.Popen('mkdir -p ' + app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], shell = True)
+
 # These are the extension that we are accepting to be uploaded
 app.config['ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS'] = set(['zcos', 'xcos'])
 
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ ENDING = 1
 DATA = 2
 NOLINE = -1
 # Scilab dir, can't run absolute paths
-SCI = "../../../../scilab/scilab_master_old/scilab/"
+SCI = "../scilab/"
 # List to store figure IDs
 figure_list = []
 # List to store filenames of files