Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

When attempting to build EPICS Base 3.14.12.4 for win32-x86-mingw, the build fails when attempting to build antelope.exe due to ld being unable to find the Com library it had just built a few lines earlier.

The problem is that the library load path flag ends up as -L/c/Path_to_Base_Libs rather than -Lc:/Path_to_Base_Libs. If I change to the right directory and run the failed command with the correct path, the command then succeeds.

I did some preliminary work in trying to track down where the /c/ was coming from, but the build system is large and full of variables. PRODDIR_LDFLAGS appears to be the variable that contains the non-working path. But trying to trace that back, I only found directory paths that are set relative to EPICS_BASE, which is set to C:/Correct_Path. Can anyone with a better knowledge of the EPICS build system than I point me to the issue?



As well, to make sure that my issue isn't with my setup, I have MinGW, gnuwin32, and Strawberry Perl installed and my path is set up in the following order:

%REGULAR_PATH%;
%PATH_TO_MINGW_BIN%;
%PATH_TO_MSYS_BIN%;
%PATH_TO_GNUWIN32_BIN%;
%PATHS_TO_PERL_BINS%