Hi all, @ Chris: Thank you for the good work on Christmas.
A few words to Boost (https://www.boost.org/). Boost is a collection of individual libraries, mostly based on templates. i.e. Later, we do not have to compile the entire Boost library platform-specific. Many concepts of the C ++ standard have been developed many years ago in the environment of Boost. If we want to Support the area of embedded system, we can only use C / C ++ in my view. According to the current state, we would like to follow the Java API and thus reduce the maintenance hell. Best regards, happy new year. Markus Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Sommer Geschäftsführer isb innovative software businesses GmbH Otto-Lilienthal-Straße 2 D 88046 Friedrichshafen Tel +49 (0) 7541 3834-14 Fax +49 (0) 7541 3834-20 Mobil +49 (0) 171 537 8437 Mail to [email protected] http://www.isb-fn.de Geschäftsführer: Markus Sommer, Thomas Zeler Registergericht: Amtsgericht Ulm HRB-Nr. 631624 Important Note: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain trade secrets and may well also be legally privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient please understand that you must not copy this e-mail or any attachments or disclose the contents to any other person. Thank you. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2018 16:37 An: [email protected] Betreff: Update to the C++ Module Hi all, good thing with holidays is, that you have enough time for the experiments that take a lot of time. So now it seems I have finished a first version of a Maven build that is able to compile the C++ API module which Markus provided us with. I had to tweak the code a little, but now it seems I was able to build on 64bit machines with Mac, Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows 10. In contrast to Java, C++ doesn’t have a nice an simple library repository. Also wouldn’t the binaries built on a mac be runnable on Windows for example. Markus’ initial code used a library called “boost” which seems to provide a platform independent abstraction of some of the essential things we need (Sockets, Types, …) So next to the “api” module is a “libs” module, which does nothing else than download an build any required third party libraries and to install them in the “libs/libs” directory. This directory is then explicitly imported in the builds of the other modules (currently just the API) As building the boost lib takes a very, very long time, I decided to have it only built, if the “libs/libs” directory is missing. So if you are building for the first time … get yourself a big cup of coffee. Hopefully we’ll be able to strip that build down to the parts we need and not compile everything. The build itself is performed with a tool called “CMake”. This claims to be a meta-build system that allows generating everything needed to build with a variety of other build systems. On windows it requires a gcc compliant compiler to be installed. I decided to go down the mingw path. So if you want to build from the commandline with a Windows system, be sure to install that first and to add the bin directory of that to your systems PATH. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/installer/mingw-w64-install.exe/download) Right now the module is not directly integrated to be automatically built with the rest of the project. In order to build the C++ part, just change the directory into the “plc4cpp” directory and do a “mvn install” in there. I would be really happy for some feedback, as this stuff is a lot more complicated to configure than in my normal Java world. I hope I got everything right. So … then I’ll wish you all happy testing ;-) Chris
