[etherlab-users] C++ Applications

[Mike O'Connor]

Hi john

My reason for posting my questions in the last few days is for exactly this reason. Once finished we will be publishing a tool kit under a open source license

Mike


On 02/03/2012, at 12:43 PM, John Erlandsson <john at lunatech.se> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am curious as to know if there is a way of using your EtherCat master for automation purposes, without Simulink.
> 
> What I basically want to do is: Describe the bus in a configuration file, and assign names to the I/O.
> I then want them to be imported and declared somehow in a C++ application.
> 
> Like TwinCat, but with C++ and Linux...
> 
> The reason for this is that I think it would be awesome to do industrial automation in C++. To actually abstract machines and subclass them, instead of reusing code snippets.
> 
> 
> Could someone give me a dumb-ed down version of how this could be done?
> 
> Does anyone have a better idea of using the master?
> 
> Is it even a good idea to use userspace applications?
> 
> 
> Appreciate any help.
> 
> //John
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