Re: EPICS base on Windows with INSTALL_LOCATION on a different drive

[Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>]

With GNU make for windows 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm it works using paths 
like C:/epics/base-3.14.12. It's only cygwin make that is not usable.

Dirk

Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> On Monday 15 November 2010 04:00:07 Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> > I tried to follow the example in configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.win32-x86.Common:
> > INSTALL_LOCATION = C:/epics/base-3.14.12
> >
> > This does not work because make reads lines starting with C: as rules
> > for building the file C. Using \\ instead of / also does not help.
> >
> > So I tried
> > INSTALL_LOCATION = /cygdrive/c/epics/base-3.14.12
> >
> > Now the microsoft compiler fails because it cannot read the cygdrive
> > path and thus cannot find the header directories. Here the problem is
> > that the PATH_FILTER only replaces / with \\ but not /cygcdrive/c with c:
>
> We don't support the use of Cygwin tools to build Base on the win32-x86, 
> win32-x86-mingw and windows-x64 targets; you need versions of Make and Perl 
> that understand the windows paths for those targets.  If you mix the two you 
> just end up with the kinds of problems that you describe above, which neither 
> Janet nor I have the time or inclination to try and fix right now.
>
> When building for the Windows API (using either the MSVC++ or MinGW compilers) 
> I use the MinGW version of GNUMake and a Perl from ActiveState, although there 
> may be alternatives to them.  When building for Cygwin I use the versions of 
> Make and Perl that come with Cygwin.  Note that R3.14.12 will support building 
> shared libraries on Cygwin 1.7 (using gcc-3, not gcc-4), although that still 
> doesn't work on Cygwin 1.5.
>
> - Andrew