A Configuration and Monitoring App for modFOC Motor Controllers
This Software is derived from the serialplot project by Hasan Yavuz Özderya

Deployment under Windows

• Optainin CQT Creator

  • Download the QT Online Installer via the open source policy
  • Create a QT account
  • Choose custom installation and filter for LTS Versions
  • Install the latest QT5 LTS Release
  • Add the OpenSSL Toolkit to the installation
  • Add the QT Installer Framework to the installation

• Optain QWT Libraries

  • Download QWT Sources v6.1.6
  • Copy the downloaded archive to a folder in your root directory called "Qwt" and unpack it for example C:\Qwt
  • Follow these Instructions in order to compile for Windows using qmake
  • Add QMAKEFEATURES environment variable to YOUR_QWT_ROOT/features (ex. C:\Qwt-6.1.6\features)
  • Add YOUR_QWT_ROOT/lib to path (ex. C:\Qwt-6.1.6\lib)

• Add OpenSSL support

  • When OpenSSL Toolkit was installed by the Online Installer add YOUR_QT_HOME\Tools\OpenSSL\YOUR_PLATFORM\bin to your environment (ex. C:\Qt\Tools\OpenSSL\Win_x64\bin)

• Deploying via CQtDeployer

  • Download the latest CQtDeployer release for Windows from the releases page on GitHub
  • Install CQtDeployer

• QT Creator

  • When all the above is finished, reboot your system and start QT Creator
  • Open the .pro file
  • Configure the project with a appropiate kit and set the release build folder to PROJECT_ROOT/build
  • Run CQTDeployer from the project root with cqtdeployer -confFile .\CQtDeployer.json

Deployment under Linux

• Clone the repo and setup build environment

  • Clone with git clone https://github.com/ThoMint/modFOC-Configurator.git
  • Change Directory to project root cd modFOC-Configurator/
  • Create and change to build directory with mkdir build and cd build/

• Optainin Dependencies

  • Install the necesseray qt packages with:
    • sudo apt install qtbase5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev cmake mercurial
    • sudo apt install libqwt-qt5-dev
    • sudo apt-get install libqt5svg5-dev
    • sudo apt install build-essential

• Build the linux binary

  • Create the makefile with qmake: qmake ../modFOC-Configurator.pro
  • Build with make -j

• Download and install CQtDeployer

  • Download CQtDeployer deb package
  • Install the package with sudo apt install ./CQtDeployer_1.5.4.5_Linux64.deb
  • Change to the build directory with cd modFOC-Configurator/build/
  • Build the deb package with cqtdeployer -bin modFOC-Configurator deb
  • Now the package is ready for installation: sudo apt install ./modFOC-Configurator.deb