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This is the INSTALL file of the IgH EtherCAT Master.
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$Id$
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vim: set spelllang=en spell tw=78
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Building and installing
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The complete build and installation procedure is described in the respective
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section of the documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.
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For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling
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$ ./boostrap # to create the configure script, if downloaded from the repo
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$ ./configure
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$ make all modules
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... and as root:
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# make modules_install install
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# depmod
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... and linking the init script and copying the sysconfig file from $PREFIX/etc
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to the appropriate locations and customizing the sysconfig file.
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# ln -s ${PREFIX}/etc/init.d/ethercat /etc/init.d/ethercat
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# cp ${PREFIX}/etc/sysconfig/ethercat /etc/sysconfig/ethercat
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# vi /etc/sysconfig/ethercat
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Make sure, that the 'udev' package is installed, to automatically create the
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EtherCAT character devices. The character devices will be created with mode
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0660 and group root by default. If you want to give normal users reading
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access, create a udev rule like this:
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# echo KERNEL==\"EtherCAT[0-9]*\", MODE=\"0664\" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-EtherCAT.rules
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Now you can start the EtherCAT master:
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# /etc/init.d/ethercat start
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Have a look at the examples/ subdirectory for some application examples.
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Have fun!
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