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Firstly, I'd like to express my enthusiasm for this library as it has already enabled me to make a lot of progress in technologies that communicate with Beckhoff PLCs
I'd like to ask because I don't think I'm the only one who's spent hours trying to solve the problem of pyads not installing via pip on Linux-based machines, so I'd like to ask you to include in the official documentation for installing this library that it's necessary for Linux-based systems to install the tools for working with the C language, namely running the command (sudo apt install build-essential) on Ubuntu systems and running the command (sudo dnf group install c-development development-tools) on fedora-based systems. Because the error that is displayed is not very clear as to what the cause might be, especially for people who have been programming for a short time.
Thanks and keep up the good work
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chrisbeardy
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Improved Pyads installation documentation
Include build tools required for linux pcs to install Pyads in documentation
Jan 13, 2025
Hello, everyone.
Firstly, I'd like to express my enthusiasm for this library as it has already enabled me to make a lot of progress in technologies that communicate with Beckhoff PLCs
I'd like to ask because I don't think I'm the only one who's spent hours trying to solve the problem of pyads not installing via pip on Linux-based machines, so I'd like to ask you to include in the official documentation for installing this library that it's necessary for Linux-based systems to install the tools for working with the C language, namely running the command (sudo apt install build-essential) on Ubuntu systems and running the command (sudo dnf group install c-development development-tools) on fedora-based systems. Because the error that is displayed is not very clear as to what the cause might be, especially for people who have been programming for a short time.
Thanks and keep up the good work
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: