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OpenPOWERLINK

openPOWERLINK is an Open Source Industrial Ethernet stack implementing the Ethernet POWERLINK protocol.

Prerequisites

The following is needed in order to use openPOWERLINK with 4diac FORTE:

Instructions

The openPOWERLINK V1.8.0 stack from SourceForge should be compiled using at least the following options in CMake:

  • CFG_POWERLINK_CHM

  • CFG_POWERLINK_PROCESS_IMAGE

  • CFG_X86_WINDOWS_DLL (only available on Windows)

If compiled on Windows the resulting DLL and LIB must be copied to the main openPOWERLINK-V1.8.0 folder.

TinyXML can also be downloaded from SourceForge. 4diac FORTE CMake has to be configured as follows:

  • check FORTE_MODULE_POWERLINK

  • set FORTE_MODULE_POWERLINK_LIB_DIR to [OPENPOWERLINK-V1.08.0_HOME]

  • set FORTE_MODULE_POWERLINK_TINYXML_DIR to the directory where you unpacked TinyXML

For communication through opwenPOWERLINK, instantiate and configure the function blocks provided within the opwenPOWERLINK folder. The opwenPOWERLINK folder is part of 4diac’s type library.

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