How to build BusConductor GitHub project?

Vikash Chandola · February 2020

I am failing to build following project

I clone this repository and executed plcncli generate code in projects root directory and got following error

chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli generate code
Generating all files with the 'code' generator for /home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/src/PLCNext_github/BusConductor.
The project in /home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/src/PLCNext_github/BusConductor does not contain a valid target. Without a valid target port structures from within the SDK can not be generated and automatic include detection will not work as well.
Successfully generated all files with the 'code' generator for /home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/src/PLCNext_github/BusConductor.

I tried to add target but got following error

chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli set target --add -n AXCF2152
Could not find the target 'AXCF2152', because no targets with that name are available.
chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli set target --add -n axcf2152
Could not find the target 'axcf2152', because no targets with that name are available.

Can you please tell how to resolve this?

plcncli version :plcncli 20.0.0.243 (20.0.0.243)

SDK version :2020.0.1_LTS

Martin PLCnext Team · February 2020

Hi Vikash,

What is the result of the following commands:

plcncli get targets

and

plcncli get sdks

If you do not see a suitable target, then the SDK may not have been installed correctly.

~ Martin.

Vikash Chandola · February 2020

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your response.

I am getting empty responses while executing above commands

chandola:SDK$ plcncli get targets
{
"targets": []
}
chandola:SDK$ plcncli get sdks
{
"sdks": []
}
chandola:SDK$ ls
cmake
environment-setup-cortexa9t2hf-neon-pxc-linux-gnueabi
site-config-cortexa9t2hf-neon-pxc-linux-gnueabi
sysroots
toolchain.cmake
version-cortexa9t2hf-neon-pxc-linux-gnueabi

I had installed SDK by executing pxc-glibc-x86_64-axcf2152-image-sdk-cortexa9t2hf-neon-axcf2152-toolchain-2020.0.sh from PLCnCLI_SDK_2020.0_Linux_AXC_F_2152.zip. With this SDK I have been able to successfully compile Part -02 of SampleRuntime with this SDK.

plcncli and sdk were separate installations so is there any provision to configure SDK related parameter in plcncli configuration. I tried to do this with plcncli set commands but that failed.

What should i do to correct this problem. Shall I reinstall the whole SDK?

Martin PLCnext Team · February 2020

Hi Vikash,

For the SDK to be recognised by plcncli, it must be installed using the plcncli install sdk command.

If you have had no luck getting the SDK recognised using this command:

plcncli set setting SdkPaths Path/to/sdk --add

... then you will need to install the SDK again, using the plcncli command.

~ Martin.

Vikash Chandola · February 2020

Hi,

I was able to add sdks and targets with command you provided. However project building failed with same error

chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli generate code
Generating all files with the 'code' generator for /home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/src/PLCNext_github/BusConductor.
The project in /home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/src/PLCNext_github/BusConductor does not contain a valid target. Without a valid target port structures from within the SDK can not be generated and automatic include detection will not work as well.
Successfully generated all files with the 'code' generator for /home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/src/PLCNext_github/BusConductor.
chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli get targets
{
"targets": [
{
"name": "AXCF2152",
"version": "20.0.0.24752",
"longVersion": "2020.0 LTS (20.0.0.24752)",
"shortVersion": "20.0.0",
"available": null
}
]
}
chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli get sdks
{
"sdks": [
{
"path": "/home/chandola/disk/PLCNext/2020.0.1_LTS/SDK"
}
]
}
chandola:BusConductor$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

I removed sdk and tried to install with plcncli but installation failed with following error

Capture

Martin PLCnext Team · February 2020

Hi Vikash,

The file you need to provide to the plcncli install sdk command is the .sh file, not the .zip file.

Please try again with the .sh file and let us know how you get on.

~ Martin.

Vikash Chandola · March 2020

Hi Martin,

I reinstalled SDK using .sh file as you mentioned however the problem doesn't get resolved. Please refer following snippet

Capture 1

Please let me know how to proceed from here to resolve the issue.

Martin PLCnext Team · March 2020

Hi Vikash,

It looks like the target has not been set for the project.

Have you executed this command?

chandola:BusConductor$ plcncli set target --add -n AXCF2152

Vikash Chandola · March 2020

Setting target for the project helped. Now I am able to generate code and config(first two steps for building project). However I failed to build project(plcncli build). It is throwing following error while executing plcncli build.

Could not find the version '2019.3 (19.3.0.18509 )' of the target 'AXCF2152'. Available versions are: 20.0.0.24752.

I have installed 2020.0.1 SDK in my development environment. Seems like project is supposed to be build with 2019.03 SDK. Is it mandatory to install 2019.3 for using this project? How can i make it work for 2020 sdk? I tried to set SDK with plcncli set sdk, but it it turns our sdk is not a valid verb for this command.

Martin PLCnext Team · March 2020

The project was designed using SDK version 2019.3, but it should be possible to build it with other SDK versions.

Please look in the file plcnext.proj in the project root directory. You should see entries for the SDKs that it is expecting to be built with. You should be able to delete the complete line that includes this text:

AXCF2152,2019.3 (19.3.0.18509 )

... and then try building again.

How to build BusConductor GitHub project?

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