doc/overview.rst
author Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:43:20 +0300
changeset 2520 3a1c0c161f80
parent 810 707e2be17a43
child 3925 1d383b4c0a23
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fix backtrace on printing localized (non-ascii) error message in PLCGenerator.

traceback:
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\BeremizIDE.py", line 811, in OnMenu
getattr(self.CTR, method)()
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\ProjectController.py", line 1134, in _Build
IECGenRes = self._Generate_SoftPLC()
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\ProjectController.py", line 746, in _Generate_SoftPLC
if self._Generate_PLC_ST():
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\ProjectController.py", line 763, in _Generate_PLC_ST
self._getIECgeneratedcodepath())
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\PLCControler.py", line 466, in GenerateProgram
errors.append(str(ex))
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-9: ordinal not in range(128)
Fix backtrace on printing localized (non-ascii) error message in PLCGenerator.

traceback:
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\BeremizIDE.py", line 811, in OnMenu
getattr(self.CTR, method)()
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\ProjectController.py", line 1134, in _Build
IECGenRes = self._Generate_SoftPLC()
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\ProjectController.py", line 746, in _Generate_SoftPLC
if self._Generate_PLC_ST():
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\ProjectController.py", line 763, in _Generate_PLC_ST
self._getIECgeneratedcodepath())
File "C:\Beremiz\targets\st\beremiz\..\..\..\beremiz\beremiz\PLCControler.py", line 466, in GenerateProgram
errors.append(str(ex))
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-9: ordinal not in range(128)


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Project overview
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In order to target the widest possible range of programmable devices and keep efficient, Beremiz use C code as an intermediate language. 

To be executed, C needs to be compiled. `GCC <http://gcc.gnu.org>`_ serve that purpose perfectly.

PLC program is expressed in languages defined in IEC-61131, including graphical languages. Thanks to PLCopen TC2, those graphical languages have a standardised representation, in XML.

To be continued.