open62541/README.md

open62541

An open-source communication stack implementation of OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) licensed under LGPL + static linking exception.

Documentation

Documentation is generated from Doxygen annotations in the source code. The current version can be accessed at http://open62541.org/doxygen/.

Build Procedure

Ubuntu

# install build infrastructure
sudo apt-get install git build-essential gcc cmake python python-lxml

# build
git clone https://github.com/acplt/open62541.git
cd open62541
mkdir build
cmake .. # generate the build scripts
# Optionally create an Eclipse project: cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" .. 
make # creates executables in the build directory

# enable additional features
sudo apt-get install libexpat1-dev # for XML-encoding
sudo apt-get install liburcu-dev # for multithreading
sudo apt-get install check # for unit tests
sudo apt-get install graphviz doxygen # for documentation generation

ccmake .. # to select features for compilation. Use "cmake-gui .." for more eye-candy
make

Windows (Visual Studio)

• Get and install Python and CMake: https://python.org/downloads, http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
• Get and install Visual Studio 2013 (Express): http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=40787
• Download the open62541 sources (using git or as a zipfile from github)
• Add the folder with the python executable to the Windows PATH (System Settings)
• Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
• Open a command shell (cmd) and run Batchfile python <path-to>\get-pip.py python -m pip install lxml cd <path-to>\open62541 mkdir build cd build <path-to>\cmake.exe .. -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" open "build\open62541.sln" in Visual Studio 2013 and build as usual

Windows (MinGW)

• Execute the same steps as in the Visual Studio case. But instead of installing Visual Studio, get and install MinGW:
  • Get the latest MinGW installer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files
  • Select following packages: mingw-developer-toolkit, mingw32-base, msys-base
  • After install, run MinGW\msys\1.0\postinstall\pi.bat
• The cmake command changes to Batchfile <path-to>\cmake.exe .. -G "MinGW Makefiles"
• Then run (still in the build folder) Batchfile <path-to>\mingw32-make.exe

Get expat

• Start MinGW Installation Manager mingw-get.exe
• Choose all Packages, mark mingw32-expat and install

Get the check unit testing framework

• Download check from http://check.sourceforge.net/
• Open MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat bash cd check-code autoreconf --install ./configure make make install