Hello! I have some questions about Wine and how/if it can be used with industrial communication like OPC (MicroSoft Com/DCom objects, DDE and more) My short question is: Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work with a Linux system. OPC "OLE for Process Control" A "general" standard for communication in industrial systems, that unfortunately is totally depending on Windows I work on a small company in Sweden who make industrial computers for the industry, and when we a few years ago had to choose operating system for our new model I got them to choose Linux. And almost everything is perfect, we have had a working product for almost a year now, and everything is good. But now our company needs to support OPC, this is a big problem that makes a lot of people in the company start saying things like WinCE or Win XP embedded. I am more in need to make/use same kind of OPC api for Linux then running a windows program. Although I could have a Win program running in Wine on the Linux machine talking with the main app on the same computer and talking OPC to other machines that need that. I hope Wine and/or you can help me in this case. It would be a tragedy if we had to switch operating system just because of this. /Rickard -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:41:13 -0500, you wrote:> > Hello! > > I have some questions about Wine and how/if it can be used with industrial communication like OPC (MicroSoft Com/DCom objects, DDE and more) > > My short question is: > Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work with a Linux system. > > OPC "OLE for Process Control" > A "general" standard for communication in industrial systems, that unfortunately is totally depending on Windows > > > I work on a small company in Sweden who make industrial computers for the industry, and when we a few years ago had to choose operating system for our new model I got them to choose Linux. And almost everything is perfect, we have had a working product for almost a year now, and everything is good. > But now our company needs to support OPC, this is a big problem that makes a lot of people in the company start saying things like WinCE or Win XP embedded. > > I am more in need to make/use same kind of OPC api for Linux then running a windows program. > Although I could have a Win program running in Wine on the Linux machine talking with the main app on the same computer and talking OPC to other machines that need that. > > I hope Wine and/or you can help me in this case. It would be a tragedy if we had to switch operating system just because of this.Yes, that would be tragic. I remember that OPC heavily uses DCOM. I do not think that wine's implementation is sufficiently advanced and compatible to have much hope. Yet the experts are on the developer list, you will get a better answer there. Then, did you really look very well for a native Linux solution? After looking only 20 seconds on www.opcfoundation.org (those that created OPC specs in the first place) I see already client and server Toolkits for Unix/Linux. Rein. -- Rein Klazes rklazes@xs4all.nl
----- Original Message ----- From: Rein Klazes <rklazes@xs4all.nl> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:26:46 +0200 To: "Rickard Svensson" <riq@mail.com> Subject: Re: [Wine]Wine and industrial communication like OPC> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:41:13 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > > I have some questions about Wine and how/if it can be used with industrial communication like OPC (MicroSoft Com/DCom objects, DDE and more) > > > > My short question is: > > Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work with a Linux system. > > > > OPC "OLE for Process Control" > > A "general" standard for communication in industrial systems, that unfortunately is totally depending on Windows>>> CAT >>>> I remember that OPC heavily uses DCOM. I do not think that wine's > implementation is sufficiently advanced and compatible to have much > hope. Yet the experts are on the developer list, you will get a better > answer there.I should join the developer list to get an answer... No developers here?> Then, did you really look very well for a native Linux solution? After > looking only 20 seconds on www.opcfoundation.org (those that created OPC > specs in the first place) I see already client and server Toolkits for > Unix/Linux.For about a year ago I looked around for a Linux OPC solution, then all the implementations were without same of the OPC:s funktions. Now it looks better, that's true. But if the license costs are as they were before it is not god. I also se that OPC true XML is now a real product, that seems promising. Although most industrial systems demands compability with all versions of OPC, and OPC XML while probably not be used in several years, except on totally new projects. I knew most of this, and have looked at it before (perhaps I should have mentioned it too). / Rickard -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:24:16 -0500, you wrote:> I should join the developer list to get an answer...I think you can write directly, but then your mail will go through a moderator causing delays.> No developers here?You need some that are not here often, if ever. Rein. -- Rein Klazes rklazes@xs4all.nl