Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:41:53 -0600

Jeff,

I think you read more into my message than I intended, which was written

from relative ignorance of how EPICS IOCs are built and used on Windows.

My original aim was to resolve the issues that we have at the moment when

building IOCs for Linux (which defaults to SHARED_LIBRARIES=YES). I don't

think it's acceptable to have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable before

running binaries, especially when there's a way to build the path to the

necessary shared libraries (which are not necessarily all in base - the

sequencer also uses a couple of libraries at runtime) into the binary in

the first place. At present that can be done manually on Linux with

settings in one or more config files, but it's silly for these to have to

be made manually when they can easily be automated, which is what I've

been working on. As long as we can do that on Linux and Solaris (and HP

if Ralph and the other HP-ers want it) I don't really care that it can't

be done on Windows, which seems to be the case.

I don't intend to make any changes to the win32 configuration files, I

just wanted to ensure that I had explored all of the targets with this

proposal. It can't be done the same way on win32, so end of story.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System