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"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:59:30 -0500

Hi Andrew,

> The 3.14 branch does currently contain support for a host architecture

> "windows-x64" which Janet added in February 2009 and modified in
October 
> (after then R3.14.11 release).  Have you tried this yet?

No, I just learned about that in a message from Janet this morning.  It
is not mentioned in the EPICS release notes or in the
README/Installation file that describes the supported architectures. I
had not looked in the configure/os directory.

I'm a little confused over the correct name for this new architecture.
The file is called

/configure/os/CONFIG.windows-x64.windows-x64

That makes it sound like the architecture is window-x64.  But in that
file it uses a different syntax in the comments, win-x86_64.  What do I
set EPICS_HOST_ARCH to?

# CONFIG.win-x86_64.win-x86_64
#
# $Id: CONFIG.windows-x64.windows-x64,v 1.1.2.1 2009/02/26 20:56:53 jba
Exp $
# This file is maintained by the build community.
#
# Definitions for win-x86_64 target archs when host arch is win-x86_64
# Sites may override these definitions in
CONFIG_SITE.win-x86_64.win-x86_64
#-------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:30 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: Mark Rivers; [email protected]
Subject: Re: 64-bit Windows architecture support in EPICS

Hi Mark,

On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:27:57 Mark Rivers wrote:
>
> I am starting to really need support for 64-bit Windows on EPICS.
Many of
> our new desktop machines are running Windows 7 64-bit, and I want to
run
> both EPICS extensions (e.g. medm) and IOCs (e.g. Prosilica cameras) on
> these machines.  Has anyone developed the required files in
> base/configure/os for 64-bit Windows support?  I don't think Cygwin
yet has
> 64-bit support, but the Microsoft compiler does of course.  I've built
> 64-bit non-EPICS applications on Windows already using the Microsoft
> compiler.

The 3.14 branch does currently contain support for a host architecture 
"windows-x64" which Janet added in February 2009 and modified in October

(after then R3.14.11 release).  Have you tried this yet?

- Andrew
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