libcanardbc

Overview

libcanardbc is a partial fork of cantools.sourceforge.net from rev47 (SVN). This fork has been made to remove dependencies on hdf5 and matio, and to fix compilation issues on Mac OS X in libdbc.

Only the DBC parser/lexer and associated library has been kept from the original project.

The original cantools project is licensed under GPLv3, this means you can't link the libraries of this project with a proprietary tool. This choice has been made on purpose by Andreas Heitmann and so this fork inherits of the license.

Installation

You will only need to install:

• automake
• autoconf
• libtool
• flex
• bison
• json-glib-1.0 (on Debian/Ubuntu: libjson-glib-dev; on other OSes probably a similar name)

and a C compiler (gcc or clang) to compile the library.

To install, just run the usual dance, ./configure && make install. Run ./autogen.sh first to generate the configure script if required.

Tools

The directory tools contains several tools related to libcanardbc:

• dbc2json converts a DBC file to a JSON file. It's up to you to adapt it to your needs. This program is linked to libcanardbc so it is licensed under GPLv3.

• json2html renders a JSON file (DBC) to an HTML page. This program is distributed under BSD 3-Clause license.

Another project named caneton uses the generated JSON file of DBC to decode CAN messages.

DBC format

The syntax of signals in DBC file is:

<object> <name> : <start bit>|<length>@<endiannes ex. 0 for Motorola, 1 for Intel><signedness ex. + (unsigned) or - (signed)> (<factor>,<offset>) <range, ex. 0|360> "<unit>" <nodes>