[ell-i-developers] Fwd: [Developers] Structured Text and Instruction List compiler for the Arduino
- From: Pekka Nikander <pekka.nikander@xxxxxx>
- To: "ell-i-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ell-i-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:38:55 +0200
I think this is quite interesting from our point of view. It would be nice if
anyone had time to dig in.
--Pekka
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Paulo Torrens <paulo_torrens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Developers] Structured Text and Instruction List compiler for
> the Arduino
> Date: March 17, 2014 8:37:53 GMT+02:00
> To: developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Paulo Torrens <paulo_torrens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the answer. :)
>
> I'll take some time to write a simple ST/IL programming tutorial (since the
> languages are *way* underrated) and some examples which work with the
> Arduino. Maybe "translate" some of the examples that ship with the IDE. The
> languages *really* fit there!
>
>
> And yeah, I understand that it won't be that easy to make it ship with the
> official IDE, but I wanted to know if there would be this possibility.
>
> My main goal, actually, is to try to help bring some free software into the
> industry. That is a *really* closed business, it was even really hard to find
> information on the languages to build the transpiler... but maybe once a
> library can be made compatible with both PLCs and the Arduino, the GPL can
> help spread free software. But I think you guys can understand that it would
> feel nice to have the transpiler on the official release. =P
>
> Just wanted to know what I would have to do. I'll write the docs/examples
> down and post everything on the next couple of months, then I'll post on the
> forums to see what is the people's reaction about it.
>
> I'm just worried that I probably wouldn't have much time to work on the IDE
> itself (if I forked it)... I actually use makefiles myself, GUIs are not my
> cup of tea... :(
>
>
>
>
>
> Em domingo, 16 de março de 2014 06h43min26s UTC-3, rob.tillaart escreveu:
> Sounds interesting,
> I think you should start with creating a webpage (arduino playground?) with
> links, description and examples to show the working of the transpiler.
> The examples should differ in complexity and be instructive / realistic e.g.
> blinking 2 leds @ different frequency.
>
> Do not expect this be part of the IDE soon, you might fork the github project
> and create a "shadow" version to show how it could be done.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Paulo Torrens <paulo_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My company needed to make software that would be compatible with a PLC and
> the Arduino, so I ended up writing a transpiler that compiles Structured Text
> and/or Instruction List into C code that uses Arduino and avrlibc libraries.
>
> I've tested it with Arduino Mega and with a Siemens' PLC, seemed to be ok.
>
> I've talked to them and I've decided to release the compiler under the GPL,
> and the runtime for the languages under, probably, Beerware (since it needs
> to be far more permissive).
>
> I'm going to clean up the code a little bit, write some documentation, and
> then post about it on the Arduino forums.
>
> What I'd like to know is if there is any chance to make the compiler ship
> with the Ardunio IDE, giving people an alternative over writing C programs
> for the Arduino. What do I need to do for this?
>
> (I'd gladly help modify the IDE itself to handle ST/IL highlight too.)
>
> Thanks. :)
>
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