Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Base Release 3.12

EPICS R3.12 is an old release, although still in use at some sites.

Documentation

The following documents cover these versions of Base. Textual links are to HTML documents, other formats are indicated by an icon link.

Release Notes

• R3.12.2 (11/1/95-Draft)
  
• R3.12.1.2 (9/19/95-Draft)
  

Reference Documents

• Application Developer's Guide
  by Martin R. Kraimer (11/94)
  [870 KB]  
• Application Source/Release Control
  by Bob Zieman, Janet Anderson and Marty Kraimer (1/23/95)
  [200 KB]  
• Source/Release Control
  by Matthew Needes, Janet Anderson, and Marty Kraimer (2/16/95-Draft)
  [310 KB]  
• Record Reference Manual
  by Janet B. Anderson and Martin R. Kraimer (Issue 1b: 6/96-Draft)
  [2.0 MB]   A4 [2.1 MB]   [2.0 MB]  
• Channel Access Reference Manual
  by Jeffery O. Hill (3/16/95)
  [180 KB]  
• State Notation Language Users Guide version 1.9
  by Andy Kozubal (10/95)
  [207 KB]  
• Synchronized TimeStamp Support
  by Jim Kowalkowski (08/95)
  

Software Distribution

All previously released versions of Base are now publicly available. To discover the size of the download files in advance, visit the Base Download area. These tar files contain source code only (no binaries), and were compressed using gnuzip.

• R3.12.2 Patch-7 (19 February 1997)
• R3.12.2 Patch-6 (16 August 1996)
• R3.12.2 Patch-4 (17 July 1996)
• R3.12.2 (19 April 1996)

Software Required

EPICS R3.12.2 requires that a site have installed the vxWorks RTOS from Wind River version 5.2, although it ought to also work with some later versions.

Also required are GNU make 3.71 or later, and gcc 2.7.2 or the native ANSI C compiler for your host platform.