Re: MEDM installation instructions

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

Andrew,

did you check the results of searching the tech-talk archives [1] for 
"openmotif"?
Have a look and then reconsider how much you want to get involved.....

Cheers,
Ralph

[1] http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/index.php


On Tue 22 Jun 2010 16:30:11 Andrew Wagner wrote:
> Thanks Eric, 
>
> Unfortunately I ran into the pitfall of attempting to install 
> openmotif form source via http://www.openmotif.org/ . I was able to 
> compile openmotif and install the programs but unfortunately its 
> Makefile and the EPICS/extensions Makefile are incompatible. They seem 
> to expect libraries to be built with different rules and put in 
> different locations. The .h files medm needed where in 
> openmotif-2.3.0/lib not /include and a library file libXm.a appears to 
> never be built with the Makefile from openmotif.org 
> <http://openmotif.org> . I get the error: 
>
> No rule to make target 
> `/Users/andrewwagner/OpenMotif/openmotif-2.3.0/lib/libXm.a'
>
> Does anyone have experience installing openmotif from source? There 
> must be a way to do this on a Linux box. For the time being I can just 
> delete openmotif and reinstall from Darwin ports. 
>
> Cheers, 
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Eric Norum wrote:
>
> > I have the fink openmotif3 2.2.4-4 package installed on my OS X 
> > machine.  Seems to work well with MEDM, EDM, StripTool and SDDSplot.
> >
> > MEDM is an extension:
> > Download  the extensions configuration files from EPICS Extensions 
> > Config Files 
> > <http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/extensions/configure/index.php>
> > Unpack the config file tarball. 
> > cd to the extensions  directory created by unpacking the tarball. 
> >  This directory will be referred to as the extensions <TOP> from now on
> > Edit the configure/RELEASE file top refer to where you have EPICS 
> > base installed.
> > Edit the configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.darwin-x86.darwin-x86 file and set 
> > up the correct references to your X11 and Motif packages.
> > cd to the <TOP> directory and run make
> >
> > Now to download and build an extension -- medm in this case:
> > Download the medm tarball:  MEDM 3.1.4 
> > <http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/download/extensions/medm3_1_4.tar.gz>
> > cd to the <TOP>/src directory and unpack the medm tarball
> > cd to the <TOP>/src/medm directory and run make
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Andrew Wagner wrote:
> >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > I'm new to EPICS and have compiled both EPICS base and Asyn 
> > > successfully on my OS X 10.6.3 MacBook Pro. It seems that much of 
> > > the driver support includes pre-made MEDM screens. Is there a good 
> > > how-to manual for installing MEDM on OS X (or any os)? I've searched 
> > > tech-talk and there definitely seem to be some pitfalls. For 
> > > instance Motif 2.30 should be used instead of 2.32 to avoid some odd 
> > > behavior. Thanks very much for the help.
> > >
> > > Andrew Wagner
> >
> > --
> > Eric Norum
> > eric@norum.ca <mailto:eric@norum.ca>