2.5. Compiling the EcMasterDemo

The following main rules can be used to generate the example applications for all operating systems.

• <OS> is a placeholder for the operating system used.

• <ARCH> is a placeholder for the architecture. Different architectures are supported.

2.5.1. EtherCAT® MainDevice Software Development Kit (SDK)

The EtherCAT® MainDevice development kit is needed to write applications based on the MainDevice stack. The MainDevice stack is shipped as a library which is linked together with the application.

The following components are supplied together with an SDK:

<InstallPath>/Bin
<InstallPath>/Doc
<InstallPath>/SDK
<InstallPath>/SDK/INC
<InstallPath>/SDK/LIB
<InstallPath>/SDK/FILES
<InstallPath>/Sources/Common

/Bin

Executables containing the MainDevice stack

/Doc

Documentation

/Examples

One or more example applications using a predefined EtherCAT® configuration. It is easily adaptable to different configurations using an appropriate EtherCAT® configuration XML file.

/SDK

EtherCAT® Software Development Kit containing libraries and header files to build C/C++-applications

/SDK/INC:

Header files to be included with the application

/SDK/LIB:

Libraries to be linked with the application

/SDK/FILES:

Additional files for platform integration (e.g. Windows CE registry files)

/Sources/Common:

Shared .cpp-files

2.5.2. Include search path

The header files are located in the following directories:

<InstallPath>/SDK/INC
<InstallPath>/SDK/INC/<OS>/<ARCH>
<InstallPath>/Sources/Common

2.5.3. Libraries

The libraries are located in the following directories:

<InstallPath>/SDK/LIB/<OS>/<ARCH>