Re: area Detector on cygwin, win32-x86

[Tim Mooney <mooney@aps.anl.gov>]

Lewis,  Yes, synApps 5.4 is intended to build against 3.14.10, and
has been in the works for months.  I have docs, notes, and tentative
tags for almost everything, but I haven't run the package as a whole
past the other developers yet.

Tim

J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 1/12/09 3:24 PM, Timothy Madden wrote:
> > Folks
> >
> > The module, seq, will not build with EPICS-3.14.10. The same is true
> > with sscan. There is some change in the source code that is
> > incompatible. I think the file sscanRecord.c has a problem.  I don't
> > know which file has bad in sscan. They do build with 3.14.8.2.
> >
> > Tim
>
> Hi, Tim.
>
> What is your environment?  What is the error you're getting?
>
> Are you using seq 2.0.12?  This version or later is required for EPICS
> base 3.14.10 according to (see near the bottom of the page)
>
>   http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/10.php
>
> As for the sscan module, have you seen this Tech-Talk thread
>
>   http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2008/msg01293.php
>
> If you're trying to build synApps 5.3, you may find other modules that
> don't build also.  I ended up having to build from a synApps CVS
> snapshot, but I can't deploy production systems against this.
>
> It would be great if a new release of synApps could be made that would
> work w/ EPICS base 3.14.10.  Tim Mooney, is this in the works, do you
> have an idea of when this might happen?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lewis

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Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.