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CODESYS 4 MAC
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- I have found myself in a situation where I have no windows PC at home, yet access to an '11 vintage Mac. i5 processor, currently 4GB RAM. Läuft!
- This should be more or less identical to CODESYS 4 Linux
- Initial testing of the docker image at CODESYS 4 Linux gave some X11 related errors.
- managed to get it working this weekend (see above screenshot)! However the install was very chaotic, jumping between installing from different sources. I don't have an exact steps to repeat the install, for this I will have to clean up all the installations I have made, and reinstall from scratch.
- Steps I am sure I needed (but not guaranteed to be exhaustive or in order at this stage)
- xquartz.org, downloaded from xquartz.org. This is like X11 libs for mac, and is a prereq for Wine. Maybe wine would have installed it for me?
- Install Wine development for mac directly form WineHQ
- Installed homebrew as per https://brew.sh/ (who new homebrew was related to St Helena)
- At some point Command Line Tools for X-Code were needed. For me I think it prompted me to install these when I installed docker, but you should be able to get them by typing the command "git"
- brew install msitools
- brew install wget
- download install2.sh from the CODESYS 4 Linux page. Change "wine-development" to "wine" and "wineserver-development" to "wineserver" throughout this file. run the script.
- the winetricks as written in the script didn't work for me. I later got them to work by individually installing progressively higher versions of .NET manually through winetricks. Will have to document this further.
- Mono would be better than .net framework (as Mono is free), but CODESYS specifically checks the right version of .net is installed.
- Once I had wine, msitools, .net and wget working, and then the codesys package downloaded and installed with the install2.sh script, everything worked. Took a couple of minutes to startup the first time, then a much more normal startup.
- DOES WORK: creating new projects, saving new projects, adding CFC and ST, running the code using the inbuilt simulator.
- NOT YET WORKING:
1. I am missing some windows fonts, so for example in CFC editor, an 'ADD' block is shown as an 'AD' block. Hillarious, but also not.
2. Nothing at all is displayed for CODESYS Control Win Device Editor, so for example I can't go online, can't look at the logs for my device, and anything else from the Device Editor.
3. Ctrl+F7. How do you even F7 on a mac anyway?
- NOT TESTED: Anything else.
- I INTEND TO DO: Get a CODESYS For Linux SL running on this MAC, and download to it. Maybe download also to a raspberry. Fix the font bug, fix the F7 bug if possible. Once this chaotic install is human readable, merge info with CODESYS 4 Linux project. Stretch goal: get a fieldbus working, preferably ethercat :).