Welcome to eCAL’s documentation!¶

eCAL (enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer) is a fast publish-subscribe middleware that can manage inter-process data exchange, as well as inter-host communication.

Getting Started¶

To start learning about eCAL, please refer to the Getting Started chapter.

This chapter will walk you through

Setting up and configuring eCAL
The applications that come with eCAL
Writing your first Hello World program

Downloading and installing eCAL¶

At the moment, we support eCAL 5.8 and eCAL 5.7 with fixes. New users should always use the latest eCAL Version (5.8.12). Support for eCAL 5.7 will be dropped when eCAL 5.9 is released.

Windows:
1. Visit the Download Archive and download the latest eCAL Installer
2. Install eCAL
Ubuntu:

Install eCAL from our PPA:
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal
```
This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Links¶

To contribute, please visit our github repository:

eCAL on Github

License¶

eCAL is licensed under Apache License 2.0. You are free to

Use eCAL commercially
Modify eCAL
Distribute eCAL

eCAL is provided on an “as is” basis without warranties or conditions of any kind.