RE: Problems with Base 3.14.10. and Sequencer 2.0.12 on Cygwin?

["Steve Banks" <sbanks@netspace.net.au>]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks greatly.  That fixed the problem.  (And no, I hadn't solved it already.)

Happy new year.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:anj@aps.anl.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 4:33 AM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Cc: Steve Banks
Subject: Re: Problems with Base 3.14.10. and Sequencer 2.0.12 on Cygwin?

Hi Steve,

> On Saturday 06 December 2008 22:37:12 

Wow, has this message really been waiting in the tech-talk queue that long?  
Hopefully you've already found the solution, but I'm answering here for 
completeness.

Steve Banks wrote:

> Has anyone else run into problems with the example app in EPICS Base
> 3.14.10 with Sequencer 2.0.12 when running on Cygwin (ARCH=cygwin-x86)?
>
> When I build the example application with the SNCSEQ in the RELEASE file
> commented out, the IOC builds fine and my trusty old EPICS console starts
> up with no problem.  When I rebuild the application with SNCSEQ=/epics/seq
> in the RELEASE file, it builds fine but when I run the IOC it goes
> immediately back to the bash command prompt, no errors, no EPICS console.

Does your PATH variable contain both the base/bin/cygwin-x86 and 
sequencer/bin/cygwin-x86 directories where the DLLs are installed (note bin, 
not the lib dirs)?  It is highly annoying that there is no message displayed 
when a needed DLL cannot be not found and the binary just quits with no 
message.  Of course this isn't the only reason this might be happening, but 
it has hit me several times.

- Andrew
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