QT-CAN Plugin for IXXAT USB adapter

Here is an implementation of a Qt plugin for the IXXAT USB adapter V2. The plugin should be installed in the Qt root plugin folder then it will be available in any Qt CAN example tools, like "CAN Example" (see Testing).

Tested on Windows 7.

(any support and feedback is welcome!)

Requirements

• Windows (by now tested on "Windows 7")
• Qt Creator 5.13

Installation

follow these steps to install the plugin in Qt.

[These tests used the toolchain MSVC2017 64bit]

Clone the repository

clone in C:\Qt\5.13.0\Src\qtserialbus\src\plugins\canbus

Add project to QT CAN PLUGIN "engine"

Edit the file C:\Qt\5.13.0\Src\qtserialbus\src\plugins\canbus\canbus.pro and add ixxatcan as SUBDIRS in qtConfig(library).

Compile project

Open project C:\Qt\5.13.0\Src\qtserialbus\src\plugins\canbus\ixxatcan\ixxatcan.pro in Qt Creator and compile for Release

copy plugin in Qt root folder

from C:\Qt\5.13.0\Src\qtserialbus\src\plugins\canbus\build-ixxatcan-Desktop_Qt_5_13_0_**MSVC2017_64bit**-Debug\plugins\canbus copy qtixxatcanbus.dll and qtixxatcanbusd.pdb to C:\Qt\5.13.0\\**msvc2017_64*\plugins\canbus

Installation using command line

I use msys2 with mingw64. So for me installtion proccess looks like:

Clone the repository

Clone repository in any place

Building

• Cd into clonned repository
• Create build directory mkdir build and cd into it cd build
• Run qmake to generate Makefile qmake ..
• Run make to compile plugin make (On windows you probably need to run mingw32-make)

Using plugin

compiled dll will be in build/plugins/ Copy it to your qt folder(for me it's /share/qt5/plugins/canbus/)

Testing

[Tested on "Window 7"] Launch the tool "CAN Example" from Qt Creator opening folder "C:\Qt\Examples\Qt-5.13.0\serialbus\can"

TODO

• Could be useful have a deploy target to copy dll and pdb files automatically in Qt folder
• Add Linux support
• Tests

Documentation

Starting from the QT manual and from some google search I follow these two links.

• Implementing a Custom CAN Plugin
• The new Qt CAN stack 2.0

Reading the first link, starting from a plugin in the folder C:\Qt\5.13.0\Src\qtserialbus\src\plugins\canbus the generic..

Implementing a Custom CAN Plugin

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtcanbus-backends.html

If the plugins provided by Qt are not suitable for the required target platform, a custom CAN bus plugin can be implemented. The implementation follows the standard way of implementing Qt plug-ins. The custom plugin must be deployed to $QTDIR/plugins/canbus.

plugin.json:

{
    "Key": "ixxatcan"
}

Starting from non-qt-standard IXXAT plugin

http://gitlab.unique-conception.org/qt-can-2.0

See section/repository:

Qt CAN - IXXAT USB driver