INSTALL
author Florian Pose <fp@igh-essen.com>
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:54:56 +0200
changeset 2095 53b5128e1313
parent 1883 57b500c062fe
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fixed skipped datagrams output again; added datagram information on skip.
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This is the INSTALL file of the IgH EtherCAT Master.

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Building and installing
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The complete build and installation procedure is described in the respective
section of the documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.

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For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling

$ ./boostrap # to create the configure script, if downloaded from the repo

$ ./configure
$ make all modules

... and as root:

# make modules_install install
# depmod

... and linking the init script and copying the sysconfig file from $PREFIX/etc
to the appropriate locations and customizing the sysconfig file.

# ln -s ${PREFIX}/etc/init.d/ethercat /etc/init.d/ethercat
# cp ${PREFIX}/etc/sysconfig/ethercat /etc/sysconfig/ethercat
# vi /etc/sysconfig/ethercat

Make sure, that the 'udev' package is installed, to automatically create the
EtherCAT character devices. The character devices will be created with mode
0660 and group root by default. If you want to give normal users reading
access, create a udev rule like this:

# echo KERNEL==\"EtherCAT[0-9]*\", MODE=\"0664\" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-EtherCAT.rules

Now you can start the EtherCAT master:

# /etc/init.d/ethercat start

Have a look at the examples/ subdirectory for some application examples.

Have fun!

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