Re: areaDetector build system question

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

There are a number of drivers that inherit from areaDetector base classes and use the AD plugins but are built outside of the AD tree. These include the following in GitHub.com/epics-modules:
- dxp
- dxpSITORO 
- xspress3
- quadEM
- Dante

Those can be used as examples for what you want to do.

Mark

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> On Mar 12, 2025, at 11:21 PM, Jörn Dreyer via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to build an areaDetector module outside of the tree?
> 
> Background:
> I have an areaDetector driver for a special camera that I would like to use in a setup using sumo.
> I have sumo setup to to build all the dependencies for areaDetector.  I would like to get my camera code included to be alble to use
> it in multiple ioc configurations.
> 
> My driver compiles if added inside the areaDetector tree, but as a normal EPICS module it fails. Has anybody achieved this?
> It look very much that my CONFIG_SITE.local file is not read and thus the relevant configuration is missed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jörn
> 
> 
>