bacnet_stack/ports/win32

Win32 ports for BACnet

This directory contains a demo program that compiles with a Win32 compiler. It was tested with the free MinGW32 MSYS2 GCC compiler and the (free) Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition

Building with Makefile under MinGW32

Note: Building for 64-bit with MinGW64 requires extra runtimes, whereas building for 32-bit as Win32 doesn't require any other files for the EXE to work in any version of Windows.

• MSYS2 installation is (from powershell):

  c:> winget install --id=MSYS2.MSYS2 -e

• Start MSYS shell, and install MinGW32.

  $ pacman -Syu mingw-w64-i686-toolchain

• Edit ~/.bashrc file and add:

  alias make=mingw32-make.exe

• Exit MSYS.

• Start MSYS profile for MinGW32.

• Verify MSYS profile:

  $ uname

  MINGW32_NT-10.0-19045

• Verify GCC is targeting i686:

  $ gcc -dumpmachine

  i686-w64-mingw32

• Verify make is built for Windows32:

  make --version

  Built for Windows32

Building and running with Microsoft Visual Studio

• Obtain the (free) Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition, or use your professional version. Currently tested to MSVC 2022
• Open solution file ports/win32/Microsoft Visual Studio/bacnet-stack.sln
• Set startup project to be the desired application project, e.g. "server"
• In the active project properties, debugging, set command line to desired DeviceID
• In active project properties, debugging, set environment variables as appropriate, e.g. BACNET_IFACE=10.59.2.1 BACNET_IP_PORT=53004
• Compile & run
• Questions? edward@bac-test.com