Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

NICOLE Remi via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:54:11 +0000

Hello!

This is probably not directly related to your issue, but I've also
encountered issues with epics-base and Make 4.4+[1].

This was fixed in d87fd0d[2], but it is not in any tagged release yet.
You might encounter this issue if your build goes further.

[1]: https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/395
[2]:
https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/commit/d87fd0db0124faf450cff93226ae6a2cc02f02bf

Cheers!
-- 
Rémi NICOLE <remi.nicole at cea.fr>
CEA/DRF/IRFU/DIS/LDISC

On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 08:32 +0100, Carsten Winkler via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I followed the instructions "Installation using plain Windows and the
> Visual Studio compilers"
> (https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/getting-started/installati
> on-windows-plain.html) to build the EPICS Base 7.0.7 under Windows
> 10. Although I had already done this successfully many times, this
> time the Make process always aborted with the pvAccess tools. So I
> took a closer look and found out the following. The current Perl
> Strawberry distribution (5.38.0.1) comes with Make version 4.4.1.
> This Make always aborts after compiling
> "base\modules\pvData\src\json\parseinto.cpp". The "parseinto.obj" is
> still created successfully. The "print.obj" should then be compiled.
> But instead, Make only outputs "obj = '' " and fails in the
> subsequent link process due to the missing "print.obj".
> 
> However, if I build the same sources with Make version 4.2.1, the
> entire build process runs without errors and the pvAccess tools are
> also built completely. All works fine.
> Unfortunately I could not find out why Make 4.4.1 fails to compile
> "parseinto.cpp" and Make 4.2.1 has no problems with it.
> 
> Best,
> Carsten

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System