RE: New To Epics - Need Help starting first IOC

[Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

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

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Mark Rivers via Tech-talk
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:01 PM
To: 'Kevan Anderson' <kevananderson at lbl.gov>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
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

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Kevan Anderson via Tech-talk
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:12 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
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:

http://mdavidsaver.github.io/epics-doc/epics-starting.html 

 

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.

 

Kevan

 

Kevan Anderson

Beamline Controls Engineering

Advanced Light Source

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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