Re: 2'nd Iocsh with win32. Bad soft-record support?

[kuner <kuner@mail.bessy.de>]

Here the solution of the problem, if anybody is interested in, with many
thanks to Mr Database: Marty Kraimer.

The missing command on the soft-IOC to register the soft device suport
for the records was:

    registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)

here in detail:

> kuner wrote:
> >
> > Dear mister kraimer,
> >
> > Ralph Lange told me that you are the right man for this problem, so I
> > ask you direct. I tried to make the base-3.14.beta1 on my win2k PC -
> > without problems and than create an example application with
> >
> >   makeBaseApp.pl -t example example
> >
> 
> Did you then do something like
> 
> makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example linux
> makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example win32
> 
> And each instance choose the correct target architecture, e.g. linux-x86
> 
> And then
> 
> make
> 
> Note that for linux your st.cmd files will look like
> 
> dbLoadDatabase("../../dbd/example.dbd",0,0)
> registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)
> dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample1.db","user=mrkHost")
> dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample2.db","user=mrkHost,no=1,scan=1 second")
> dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample2.db","user=mrkHost,no=2,scan=2 second")
> dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample2.db","user=mrkHost,no=3,scan=5 second")
> iocInit()
> #seq sncExample,"user=mrkHost"
> 
> You will execute the commands
> 
> cd <top>/iocBoot/ioclinux
> ../../bin/linux-x86/example st.cmd
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Marty
> 
> Similar
> > There is the example.dbd and the dbExample1.db that I tried to load with
> > the example.exe which is the ioc-shell and it doesn't work.
> >
> >   Q:\home\kuner\newtop>bin\win32-x86\example.exe
> >   epics> dbLoadDatabase "dbd/example.dbd"
> >   epics> dbLoadRecords "db/dbExample1.db", "user=hotte"
> >   Error   Last token ")"
> >   input line: record(ai, "hotte:aiExample")
> >      in: file db/dbExample1.db line 1
> >
> >   db_parse returned -1
> >   dbAllocRecord(ai) record_size =0
> >   filename="..\dbLexRoutines.c" line number=869
> >   Record support not found new record instance error
> >   epics>
> >
> > It is the same behaviour with win2k and linux - tested on Ralphs PC.
> > Have you any idea why there is no record support available? We had a
> > look on the makefile and the compiler output: it seems to be right and
> > we have no idea whats wrong.
> >
 Gruessle
       Bernhard Kuner
 
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