RE: EPICS 7.0.4.1. Gettings Started under Windows 10 WSYS2 MinGW UCRT 64, Problem with camonitor

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

Did you disable the Windows firewall, or put the CA exceptions in it?

 

You should be able to remove the :5065 from your EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST.

 

Mark

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Alexander Kessler via Tech-talk
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 2:20 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: EPICS 7.0.4.1. Gettings Started under Windows 10 WSYS2 MinGW UCRT 64, Problem with camonitor

 

Dear Community,

I am new to EPICS and need some  start up help.

I have compiled EPICS 7.0.4.1 following these instructions:
https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/how-tos/en/latest/getting-started/installation-windows-msys2.html
under Windows 10 MSYS2 MinGW.

After that I have build the test application. I work in the MSYS2 shell. When I start the TestIOC I get the following output:

$ ../../bin/windows-x64-mingw/test st.cmd

#!../../bin/windows-x64-mingw/test

< envPaths

epicsEnvSet("IOC","ioctest")

epicsEnvSet("TOP","C:/Users/AlexK/work/epics/testioc")

cd "C:/Users/AlexK/work/epics/testioc"

## Register all support components

dbLoadDatabase "dbd/test.dbd"

test_registerRecordDeviceDriver pdbbase

Warning: IOC is booting with TOP = "C:/Users/AlexK/work/epics/testioc"

          but was built with TOP = "/c/Users/AlexK/work/epics/testioc"

## Load record instances

dbLoadRecords("db/test.db","user=AlexK")

cd "C:/Users/AlexK/work/epics/testioc/iocBoot/ioctest"

iocInit

Starting iocInit

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

## EPICS R7.0.4.1

## Rev. 2023-05-03T15:03+0200

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

Warning: Duplicate EPICS CA Address list entry "192.168.56.255:5065" discarded

iocRun: All initialization complete

## Start any sequence programs

#seq sncxxx,"user=AlexK"

epics>

epics> dbl

test:add

test:pv1

test:pv2

So far so good. When I clone the shell session with mintty & and start camonitor, I get:

$ camonitor.exe test:add

test:add                       *** Not connected (PV not found)

CAC: Unable to connect because "WINSOCK Error 10051"

CA.Client.Exception...............................................

    Warning: "Virtual circuit disconnect"

    Context: "0.0.0.1:5"

    Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1237

    Current Time: Mon May 08 2023 20:59:00.391220265

 

So I wanted to get rid of the warnings about duplicate addresses. I have tried to set the environment variables EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST and EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST in various ways. Among others, in the testioc\iocBoot\ioctest\envPaths with epicsEnvSet() , and in the shell with export and setx commands. But no matter what I do, the behaviour does not change.

My dev PC has two ethernet cards. The second one has multiple IP4 addresses for communication with lab network and local test equipment. 

Windows-IP-Konfiguration

Ethernet-Adapter Ethernet 3:

.....

.....

.....

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : my uni net IP 4

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : the subnet mask

 ...

....

Ethernet-Adapter Ethernet 2:

   Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:

   Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : National Instruments GigE Vision Adapter

   Physische Adresse . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-21-3A-27-43

   DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Nein

   Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja

   Verbindungslokale IPv6-Adresse  . : fe80::7ebe:1e43:828e:2e48%10(Bevorzugt)

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.222(Bevorzugt)

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.11.222(Bevorzugt)

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.222(Bevorzugt)

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.55.222(Bevorzugt)

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.3

   DHCPv6-IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 124257738

   DHCPv6-Client-DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-26-CF-F0-B5-18-66-DA-08-54-53

   DNS-Server  . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.50.3

   NetBIOS über TCP/IP . . . . . . . : Aktiviert

Ethernet-Adapter Ethernet 4:

   Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:

   Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter

   Physische Adresse . . . . . . . . : 0A-00-27-00-00-07

   DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Nein

   Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja

   Verbindungslokale IPv6-Adresse  . : fe80::5129:dd7d:57d7:4fe0%7(Bevorzugt)

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.100(Bevorzugt)

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . :

   DHCPv6-IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 470417447

   DHCPv6-Client-DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-26-CF-F0-B5-18-66-DA-08-54-53

   DNS-Server  . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1

                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1

   NetBIOS über TCP/IP . . . . . . . : Aktiviert

Ethernet-Adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network #2:

   Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:

   Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #2

   Physische Adresse . . . . . . . . : 0A-00-27-00-00-09

   DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Nein

   Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja

   Verbindungslokale IPv6-Adresse  . : fe80::7e21:9f3a:57ab:49c7%9(Bevorzugt)

   IPv4-Adresse  . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.2(Bevorzugt)

   Subnetzmaske  . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . :

   DHCPv6-IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 537526311

   DHCPv6-Client-DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-26-CF-F0-B5-18-66-DA-08-54-53

   DNS-Server  . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1

                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1

   NetBIOS über TCP/IP . . . . . . . : Aktiviert

The set of EPICS env. variables looks like this:

$ printenv | grep EPICS

EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=192.168.50.222:5065

EPICS_HOST_ARCH=windows-x64-mingw

EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO

EPICS_BASE=C:\Users\AlexK\work\epics\base-R7.0.4.1

 I think I am close to the target, but somewhere I have a thinking error. I assume this is related to the handling of the environment variables in MSYS2 Shell and EPICS.

Best wishes and thank for reading this long e-mail :-)

AlexK

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