General Information =================== cantools is a set of libraries and command line tools for handling ASC, BLF, CLG, VSB, MDF, and DBC files from Vector-Informatik and others. The tools can be used to analyze and convert the data to other formats: * dbcls lists the contents of a DBC file. * cantomat converts log files in ASC, BLF, CLG, VSB format to a MAT * file (MATLAB format) * mdftomat converts log files in MDF format to a MAT file (up to MDF version 3.x) Some tools are available for testing of converters: * matdump displays the content of a MAT file as ASCII text * dbccopy copies a DBC file The tools 'cantomat' and 'mdftomat' require the package matio, which in turn requires the package hdf5. Support for these tools is optional; either disable them with '--disable-matlab' configure option or make sure hdf5 and matio dependencies are installed first (see instructions below). Since hdf5 is intended only for native builds, it is recommended to disable the optional tools on cross-compile builds of cantools in order to avoid this dependency https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/faq/compile.html#cross Shared libraries for parsing and accessing these files are also provided: * libcandbc, libcanasc, libcanblf, libcanclg, libcanvsb, libcanmdf for parsing of DBC, ASC, BLF, CLG, VSB, MDF files Installation of hdf5 (cygwin) ============================= Prerequisites: zlib, zlib-devel, bison , flex, make, gcc matio can be built with libhdf5, here is how to: 1) download: wget https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.10.5.tar.bz2 2) unpack: tar xjf hdf5-1.10.5.tar.bz2 3) build: cd hdf5-1.10.5 ./configure --with-zlib=/usr/include,/lib --prefix=/usr --with-default-api-version=v110 CFLAGS=-std=c99 make CFLAGS=-std=c99 make check 4) install: make install Installation of matio (cygwin) ============================== Prerequisites: autotools, zlib, zlib-devel, make, gcc 1) download matio-1.5.17.tar.gz: wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/matio/matio-1.5.17.tar.gz?use_mirror=' -O matio-1.5.17.tar.gz or curl -o matio-1.5.17.tar.gz -L 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/matio/matio-1.5.17.tar.gz?use_mirror=' 2) unpack: tar xzf matio-1.5.17.tar.gz 3) configure: cd matio-1.5.17 ./configure --with-zlib=/ --with-hdf5=/ --prefix=/usr 4) build and install: make ; make install Installation of zlib, hdf5, matio (linux) ======================================= sudo apt-get install gcc libz-dev libmatio-dev flex bison libbison-dev Building cantools ================= Prerequisites (cygwin): cmake, bison, flex, make, gcc, zlib, zlib-devel Prerequisites (linux): cmake, libz-dev, libmatio-dev, flex, bison, libbison-dev, make, gcc git clone https://github.com/aheit/cantools cantools-code cd cantools mkdir build cd build cmake .. make make install CMAKE configurations options (can be combined): cmake -DMATLAB=OFF (default: ON) - do not build tools with MATLAB backend cmake -DMALLOC=ON (default: OFF) - build with dmalloc debug library