ldmicro

Ladder Logic for Netzer, PIC and AVR

The original code (Release 2.2) was taken form the Ladder Micro project maintained by Jonathan Westhues: http://cq.cx/ladder.pl

Basically the project is extended with CMake list files to build it with other toolchains like MinGW compiler (also CrossCompile is possible from Linux).

Furthermore some special features for the Netzer (PIC based) platform are added. On this platform a very fast interpreter (entirely written in assembler) was implemented, which runs with int code generated by this ldmico extension. Read more: http://www.mobacon.de/wiki/doku.php/en/netzer/process

Compiling on Windows

• Using Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler

LDmicro is built using Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. If that is installed correctly, then you should be able to just run

    make.bat

and see everything build.

make.bat uses nmake.exe to compile the project, but Microsoft Visual Studio doesn't add nmake into your path automatically. You can start Visual Studio Command Prompt, change into ./ldmico, and run make.bat(or just enter nmake D=LDLANG_XX, where XX can be set to EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, TR or CN).

Various source and header files are generated automatically. The perl scripts to do this are included with this distribution, but it's necessary to have a perl.exe in your path somewhere.

• Using GCC Compiler

For compiling on Windows start a command prompt and enter the following commands:

    cd ldmicro
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DLANGUAGE=DE ..
    make all

Ensure that CMake, MinGW and MSYS are installed and in your path. LANGUAGE can be set to EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, TR or CN.

Compiling on Linux

For cross compiling on Linux start a command prompt and enter the following commands:

    cd ldmicro
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../Toolchain-mingw32.cmake -DLANGUAGE=DE ..
    make all

LANGUAGE can be set to EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, TR or CN.

MinGW and CMake can be installed with

sudo apt-get install mingw32 cmake

Using on Linux

For using ldmicro on Linux you have to install wine and winetricks. After installation you also should install ldmicro used fonts:

winetricks Lucida Tahoma

Start ldmicro with simply typing:

./ldmicro.exe