7.4. Microsoft Windows

7.4.1. EcMonitorDemo

1. Install EC-Monitor

   Run setup.exe from EC-Monitor package, which will guide you through the installation process.

2. Determine the network interface

   For example the option -ndis 192.168.1.1 1 will be using the network adapter card with the IP address 192.168.1.1.

3. Insert a TAP device after the Master Controller to capture the EtherCAT® traffic and start the EtherCAT® master

4. Run the example application

   Execute <InstallPath>/Bin/Windows/<Arch>/EcMonitorDemo.exe. At least a Real-time Ethernet Driver option has to be given.

   EcMonitorDemo -ndis 192.168.100.1 1 -f eni.xml
   

   

See also

Running EcMonitorDemo for a detailed description of the demo application.

7.4.2. OS Compiler settings

Besides the general settings from Compiling the EcMonitorDemo the following settings are necessary to build the example application for Windows:

Extra include paths

<InstallPath>\SDK\INC\Windows
<InstallPath>\Examples\Common\Windows

Extra source paths

<InstallPath>\Examples\Common\Windows
<InstallPath>\Sources\OsLayer\Windows

Extra library paths to the main EtherCAT components

<InstallPath>\SDK\LIB\Windows