Re: areaDetector build system question

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Jörn,

 

At APS we use Sumo to build AreaDetector (including ADCore and ADSupport), many of the standard plugins as external modules, and many IOCs which use these. I suggested changes to the AreaDetector build system to make that work, although my PR has bit-rotted somewhat in the 3-4 years since I last worked on it. Our local AreaDetector version has some additional changes that aren’t in the PR, but the plugins don’t require any modification IIRC.

 

Here is the configure/MODULES file from our camera IOC area, showing that it is possible to do this:

 

$ cat configure/MODULES

{

    "extra": [

        "ADCORE=$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADCore",

        "ADSUPPORT=$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADSupport"

    ],

    "module": [

        "ADARAVIS:2.2.1-C2-1",

        "ADGENICAM:1.10-C2-1",

        "ADPOINTGREY:2.9-C2-1",

        "ADSPINNAKER:3.3-C2-1",

        "AREA_DETECTOR:3.12.1-C2-2",

        "ASYN:4.42-C2-2",

        "AUTOSAVE:5.10.2-C2-1",

        "BASE:7.0.6.1-C2-3",

        "BUSY:1.7.3-C2-1",

        "CALC:3.7.4-C2-1",

        "IOCSTATS:3.2.0-C2-2",

        "IOCSTD:4.5.0-C2-1",

        "NDDRIVERSTDARRAYS:1.4-C2-1",

        "SEQ:2.2.9-C2-1",

        "SSCAN:2.11.5-C2-1",

        "ZLIB:1.2.11-C2-1"

    ]

}

 

- Andrew

 

-- 

Complexity comes for free, Simplicity you have to work for.

 

 

On 3/12/25, 11:21 PM, "Tech-talk" <tech-talk-bounces 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