dllcmakelabviewethercat

Turning an Ethercat library into a dll and integrate that dll into labview

I am trying to convert this https://github.com/OpenEtherCATsociety/SOEM library into a dll in order to import it in labview.Can i turn this library into a DLL?And how? Thank you!

Solution

  • If you want to configure CMake to build a .dll, instead of a .lib, you have to edit the top-level CMakeLists.txt file from the SOEM repository. Instead of a STATIC library, we want a SHARED library, so change this:

    add_library(soem STATIC
  ${SOEM_SOURCES}
  ${OSAL_SOURCES}
  ${OSHW_SOURCES}
  ${OSHW_EXTRA_SOURCES})

    to this:

    add_library(soem SHARED
  ${SOEM_SOURCES}
  ${OSAL_SOURCES}
  ${OSHW_SOURCES}
  ${OSHW_EXTRA_SOURCES})

    Now, re-run nmake (which will re-run CMake as well), and a DLL will be built instead.