[etherlab-users] C++ Applications

John Erlandsson john at lunatech.se
Fri Mar 2 15:57:09 CET 2012


Hi Mike!

How cool that you are producing a tool kit. Can i read about its 
progress somewhere?

//John

On 2012-03-02 03:55, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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