Subject: |
Epics Port to Linux |
From: |
[email protected] |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Mar 1995 22:40:32 -0600 (CST) |
People,
Based on comments from Mark Rivers, I finally downloaded the
R3.12.0Beta8 release to my 486 PC type box running Linux. While
I had problems with the Beta6 release, most of the endian issues seem
to have been worked out in Beta8. I now have my 486 acting as an OPI
to my VME crate with the OPI being a 486DX under Linux. (I still have to
start caRepeater manually, but this is a minor point) Currently, I
have built Ben-chin Cha's TCL/TK extensions (this also means ezca, caget/put))
as well as probe, and I even have medm compiled although I have not had
the chance to actually design interfaces (thanks to Tony Cox for
providing the XrtGraph stubs). In the next week, I will see how far
I get with the other extensions.
I'd like to reiterate Mark's kudos to the EPICS developers. The
current 3.12 distribution is very easy to work with on different
Unix platforms. Once I obtained the proper release, EPICS seems to
be quite happy under Linux with minor tweaking.
For those who don't know, Linux is a public domain Unix system for
Intel 386-586 type computers. With this port of Channel Access, you can
make that old 386+ PC be an OPI without Windoze (although, you can
always boot DOS and Windows if you choose, Linux knows how to mount
DOS partitions so you can store data so that DOS/Windows applications
can deal with it after the fact). X comes with
the public domain distribution and the latest version of Motif is
commercially available for about $200. There are some hardware
constraints, but they are not excessive.
- John
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