Simple Open EtherCAT Master Library

BUILDING

Prerequisites for all platforms

• CMake 2.8.0 or later

Linux

Build RPM

• cmake .
• make package

Use the buildenv project to build for a target host

The buildenv project provides wrappers around jenkins build swarm nodes allowing a developer to test compilations or to build one-off projects such as an RPM for a target machine.

Steps:

• check out buildenv
• build your target environment
• build artefact for target

So to build the soem rpm for rocky 8:

$ cd ~/
$ git clone [email protected]:LCOGT/buildenv.git
$ cd buildenv
$ ./makeenv r8
$ cd ~/workspace/SOEM
$ cmake . && make package

Deploy RPM

• Find soem rpm path you have built.
• scp rpm file as root to the relevant repo, e.g. for rocky8 fsfs:/data/repos/lcogt/8
• run lcogt.bash script in fsfs:/data/repos to add to yum (as root)

Windows (Visual Studio)

• Start a Visual Studio command prompt then:
  • mkdir build
  • cd build
  • cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles"
  • nmake

ERIKA Enterprise RTOS

• Refer to http://www.erika-enterprise.com/wiki/index.php?title=EtherCAT_Master

Documentation

See https://openethercatsociety.github.io/doc/soem/

Want to contribute to SOEM or SOES?

If you want to contribute to SOEM or SOES you will need to sign a Contributor License Agreement and send it to us either by e-mail or by physical mail. More information is available in the PDF.