Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-22 Thread Sascha Ittner
Sascha Ittner hat am 18. August 2013 um 22:20 geschrieben: > Hi John, > > thank you for your hints. Here the current status: > > > - The configure.in check might be better done using AC_CHECK_HEADER > > (look for other examples in the file) > > This is right. But I need the path of the ecrt.h fil

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-18 Thread Sascha Ittner
Hi John, thank you for your hints. Here the current status: > - The configure.in check might be better done using AC_CHECK_HEADER > (look for other examples in the file) This is right. But I need the path of the ecrt.h file, because I have to symlink it to the ethercat hal driver source director

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-12 Thread John Morris
Hi Sascha, I managed to delete your reply to this email. I'm copying the text from the sf archive, but replying to myself, so your client's threading may get messed up. ;( >> Since EtherCAT libs will be missing on most systems, library detection >> would need to be added configure.in, and drive

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-11 Thread Sascha Ittner
> Since EtherCAT libs will be missing on most systems, library detection > would need to be added configure.in, and driver build made conditional > in the Makefiles. I've just added a config check for this. It works with the deb install and with the manual install of the master. The later however

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-10 Thread John Morris
On 08/10/2013 09:55 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 7 August 2013 20:18, Sascha Ittner wrote: > >> The project home of the used EtherCAT master: >> http://www.etherlab.org/de/ethercat/index.php > > There is an english version at: http://www.etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php > > I am not sure how we

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-10 Thread andy pugh
On 7 August 2013 20:18, Sascha Ittner wrote: > The project home of the used EtherCAT master: > http://www.etherlab.org/de/ethercat/index.php There is an english version at: http://www.etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php I am not sure how we support things which require additional packages like t

[Emc-developers] Ethercat-Driver for LinuxCNC

2013-08-07 Thread Sascha Ittner
The last two years I've developed and tested a flexible ethercat driver for LinuxCNC. In the meantime it is used in several productive machines without problems and supports a couple of dedicated devices plus a generic driver, so I like to integrate it into the official distribution if there is any