Building custom areadetector module

[Andrew Gomella <andrewgomella@gmail.com>]

Hi Techtalk,

I'm currently working on writing an areadetector module for some Nikon cameras (http://www.nikon.com/products/instruments/lineup/bioscience/camera_microscopy/dsqi2/index.htm)

The problem I am currently having (I think) has something to due with me configuring one of the makefiles in this module incorrectly. I went through file by file (comparing to other areadetector modules which compile totally fine on my machine) to make sure my module adheres to the other examples. I am using release 2.1 of areadetector (both core and binaries). 

I can compile many other AD modules fine, including a custom areadetector module I built last year for varian detectors. 

The problem is my **Support.dbd file does not seem to get properly copied into iocs/**IOC/**App/src/O.Common      (where ** is my app name- "Ks") . I can temporarily fix the problem by copying the **Support.dbd file into O.Common but then I get other build errors (No rule to make target **.lib needed by **App.exe.  This is fixed (for some reason) by me commenting out PROD_LIBS in my ioc src makefile. and THEN I get LNK2001 error about unresolved external symbol pvar_func_KsRegister  ) I am hoping these errors are all related.

Here is my terminal output:

make -C ./configure install 

make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/configure'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl O.windows-x64 ../..

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath O.Common

make -C O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. T_A=windows-x64 install

make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/configure/O.windows-x64'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/convertRelease.pl checkRelease

make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/configure/O.windows-x64'

make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/configure'

make -C ./KsApp install 

make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp'

make -C ./src install 

make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/src'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl O.windows-x64 ../../..

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath O.Common

make -C O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. T_A=windows-x64 install

make[3]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/src/O.windows-x64'

cl /nologo /EHsc /GR -c             /favor:blend   /nologo /D__STDC__=0 /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE   /Ox /GL   /W3 /w44355       /MT -DEPICS_DLL_NO /TP   -I. -I..\\O.Common -I. -I.. -I..\\..\\..\\include\\os\\WIN32 -I..\\..\\..\\include     -IC:\\base-3.14.12.4\\include\\os\\WIN32 -IC:\\base-3.14.12.4\\include  -IC:\\support\\asyn-4-26\\include -IC:\\support\\areaDetector-R2-0\\ADBinaries\\include\\os\\WIN32 -IC:\\support\\areaDetector-R2-0\\ADBinaries\\include -IC:\\support\\areaDetector-R2-0\\ADCore\\include\\os\\WIN32 -IC:\\support\\areaDetector-R2-0\\ADCore\\include       ..\\Ks.cpp 

Ks.cpp

..\Ks.cpp(435) : warning C4101: 'pstInfo' : unreferenced local variable

lib /nologo /verbose /out:Ks.lib /LTCG        Ks.obj

Appending Ks.obj

"Installing library ../../../lib/windows-x64/Ks.lib"

make[3]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/src/O.windows-x64'

make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/src'

make -C ./Db install 

make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/Db'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl O.windows-x64 ../../..

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath O.Common

make -C O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. T_A=windows-x64 install

make[3]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/Db/O.windows-x64'

make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install'.

make[3]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/Db/O.windows-x64'

make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp/Db'

make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/KsApp'

make -C ./iocs install 

make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs'

make -C ./KsIOC install 

make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC'

make -C ./configure install 

make[3]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/configure'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl O.windows-x64 ../..

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath O.Common

make -C O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. T_A=windows-x64 install

make[4]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/configure/O.windows-x64'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/convertRelease.pl checkRelease

make[4]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/configure/O.windows-x64'

make[3]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/configure'

make -C ./KsApp install 

make[3]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/KsApp'

make -C ./src install 

make[4]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/KsApp/src'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl O.windows-x64 ../../..

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath O.Common

make -C O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. T_A=windows-x64 install

make[5]: Entering directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/KsApp/src/O.windows-x64'

perl C:/base-3.14.12.4/bin/windows-x64/makeIncludeDbd.pl KsSupport.dbd commonDriverSupport.dbd KsAppInclude.dbd

echo "../O.Common/KsAppInclude.dbd : ../Makefile" >> KsApp.dbd.d

"Expanding dbd"

Can't open include file "KsSupport.dbd"

Error at or before ""KsSupport.dbd"" in file "../O.Common/KsAppInclude.dbd" line 1

dbExpand: Input errors, no output generated

C:/base-3.14.12.4/configure/RULES.Db:261: recipe for target '../O.Common/KsApp.dbd' failed

make[5]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/KsApp/src/O.windows-x64'

C:/base-3.14.12.4/configure/RULES_ARCHS:63: recipe for target 'install.windows-x64' failed

make[4]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/KsApp/src'

C:/base-3.14.12.4/configure/RULES_DIRS:70: recipe for target 'src.install' failed

make[3]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC/KsApp'

C:/base-3.14.12.4/configure/RULES_DIRS:70: recipe for target 'KsApp.install' failed

make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs/KsIOC'

C:/base-3.14.12.4/configure/RULES_DIRS:70: recipe for target 'KsIOC.install' failed

make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/support/areaDetector-R2-0/ADNikonKs/iocs'

C:/base-3.14.12.4/configure/RULES_DIRS:70: recipe for target 'iocs.install' failed

My Makefile inside the KsApp/src/ folder:

#################################################

TOP=../..

include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG

#----------------------------------------

#  ADD MACRO DEFINITIONS AFTER THIS LINE

LIBRARY_IOC += Ks

LIB_SRCS    += Ks.cpp

DBD += KsSupport.dbd

include $(ADCORE)/ADApp/commonLibraryMakefile

#=============================

include $(TOP)/configure/RULES

#----------------------------------------

#  ADD RULES AFTER THIS LINE

####################################################

My Makefile inside the iocs\KsIOC\KsApp\src folder:

####################################################

TOP=../..

include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG

#----------------------------------------

#  ADD MACRO DEFINITIONS AFTER THIS LINE

PROD_NAME = KsApp

PROD_IOC += $(PROD_NAME)

# <name>.dbd will be created from <name>Include.dbd

DBD += $(PROD_NAME).dbd

$(PROD_NAME)_DBD += KsSupport.dbd

# <name>_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp will be created from <name>.dbd

PROD_SRCS += $(PROD_NAME)_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp $(PROD_NAME)Main.cpp

# Add locally compiled object code

PROD_LIBS += Ks

include $(ADCORE)/ADApp/commonDriverMakefile

#=============================

include $(TOP)/configure/RULES

#----------------------------------------

#  ADD RULES AFTER THIS LINE

####################################################

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew