Hi Kevan,
Did you manually create the softioc directory and put sum.cmd and sum.db in it?
What is your PATH, i.e. where is Windows supposed to find the softioc executable that you invoked?
What is the “window.bat” file that you ran, is it base-7.0.3.1/startup/windows.bat? If so, that just sets up your Windows system to build EPICS base. Did you actually build
it by typing “make” in base-7.0.3.1 top-level directory?
Mark
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Subject: RE: New To Epics - Need Help starting first IOC
Hi Kevan,
How did you download epics base from the Web?
You appear to have a directory called C:\epics\base-7.0.3.1\softioc. Where did that directory come from?
This is the contents of the base-7.0.3.1 directory on my system after I have built it.
H:\epics\base-7.0.3.1>dir
Volume in drive H is local_rw
Volume Serial Number is 6DDD-530A
Directory of H:\epics\base-7.0.3.1
12/23/2019 09:51 AM <DIR> .
12/23/2019 09:50 AM <DIR> ..
12/04/2017 11:22 AM 4,710 LICENSE
12/04/2017 11:22 AM 782 Makefile
12/24/2019 01:50 PM <DIR> configure
12/23/2019 09:43 AM <DIR> documentation
02/02/2020 11:20 AM <DIR> modules
12/04/2017 11:22 AM <DIR> src
01/08/2019 05:12 PM <DIR> startup
12/04/2017 11:22 AM <DIR> test
02/06/2018 05:55 PM 983 README
12/23/2019 09:52 AM <DIR> cfg
12/24/2019 01:50 PM <DIR> lib
12/24/2019 01:50 PM <DIR> bin
02/02/2020 11:22 AM <DIR> html
12/23/2019 09:51 AM <DIR> templates
02/02/2020 11:22 AM <DIR> include
02/02/2020 11:23 AM <DIR> dbd
02/02/2020 11:22 AM <DIR> db
3 File(s) 6,475 bytes
16 Dir(s) 707,245,117,440 bytes free
Note that there is no softioc directory?
Mark
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Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:12 PM
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Subject: New To Epics - Need Help starting first IOC
I downloaded epics base from the web and am trying to compile it and run it on windows 10 x64.
This is the problem I am having when I try to start a soft IOC.
I have grep searched the entire code base in c:\epics and found two locations where "base-3.14" exist. Neither of them help much.
As you can see, I downloaded 7.0.3.1, not 3.14...
Also, my PC does not have a D drive?
The file sum.cmd and associated .db come from here:
I have only installed the base package - run the window.bat, and configured my path to visual studio. Please note, this is unlikely a misconfiguration in a config file, because i grepped the whole folder.
Appreciate your help pointing me to next steps.
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