GitHub user Aaditya1611 added a comment to the discussion: About contributing to plc4x and potential gsoc 2026 participation
Hey chris, Thanks for a detailed explanation about the project current status and expectations from the beginners like me. I am looking forward to making meaningful contributions to the project. So about the codesys and a test container setup you told me earlier, i have been looking up to them and here's what i understand so far. The codesys Ide itself is native to windows only, so running it directly inside a docker container is kind of tricky and may not be an ideal solution. But the codesys control for linux SL runtime which can be installed through the codesys ide over ssh does allow to run a virtual PLC inside a linux machine and we can communicate and deploy programs to it with codesys Ide. As of now i do not fully understand or know if we can directly deploy a program on the virtual PLC without using the codesys Ide, and there may be a few more limitations that I’m not aware of yet. So for now, I can make a docker container with the codesys virtual PLC running inside it. Once the SoftPLC is running in a container, we can expose its communication ports and interact with it using PLC4X. It can remove the hurdle of setting up a virtual machine with linux setup on it or even using a separate linux machine where the virtual PLC can run. I will look into this more and try to find if there is a way to deploy and test the programs directly with the codesys control for linux SL runtime virtual PLC. And sorry for a late response, i was a little busy with my college stuff. Thank you. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/plc4x/discussions/2367#discussioncomment-15166285 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected]
