Hi,
I am working on deploying PLCnext projects automatically (and other, non-PLC binaries + configs as well). I essentially copy a precompiled PCWE-dir onto the Controller and change certain files for the configuration of the respective profinet devices (Stationname, MAC Address) + how to change the checksum files. Another portion is using dcp to also configure the devices accordingly, so that is project setup matches with the available devices.
It works. However, I cannot ‘overwrite’ the customized project with PLCNext Engineer, it fails. I think that this is due to a file called ‘dlc.bin’ which appeares within PCWE directory after uploading with PLCNext Engineer. I think this is another checksum/hash function to verify that everything was copied correctly by PLCNextEngineer. I think, that this is an ‘entrypoint’ for downloading a next version into the PLC (with PLCNExt Engineer). Since this file is missing, it fails, so the assumption.
My question is: Can I have a bit of guidance how to create this little file? For the time being, If i want to write a PLCNext Project traditionally, I need to reset the controller in order to do so.