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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 build and installation procedure is described in section 2.1 in the
documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.

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For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make modules

(and as root)

# make install
# make modules_install

...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

The EtherCAT character device 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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