Re: EPICS build for MVME3100

[Ron Sluiter <sluiter@aps.anl.gov>]

Hello William,

According to this WRS web page;

http://www.windriver.com/products/bsp_web/bsp_architecture.html?architecture=PowerPC

it does not look like the MVME3100 is supported with Tornado 2.2.1.

Ron

William F. Steele wrote:
> I don't understand how to build EPICS for MVME3100. I have no problem 
> with mcp750, mvme2100, 68040,  or 68060. I am trying to build EPICS 
> 3.14.11 and am using vxWorks 5.5.1 with Tornado 2.2.1. If I put 
> vxWorks-mpc8540  in my list of CROSS_COMPILER_TARGET_ARCHS, I get 
> compile errors which I traced to ARCH_DEP_CPPFLAGS which is set to 
> -DCPU=PPC32 which the compiler does not recognize. If I change that to 
> ARCH_DEP_CPPFLAGS = -DCPU=PPC85XX, then I no longer get compile 
> errors, but EPICS will not load due to a lot of undefined symbols. I 
> talked to WRS about this problem and was advised that I was using the 
> wrong compiler. When I use Tornado to build vxWorks, Tornado uses 
> /home/als2/devel/vxWorks/tornado2.2.1-ppc/host/gnu/3.3/sun4-solaris2/bin/ccppc, 
> but when building EPICS, the EPICS build system uses 
> /home/als2/devel/vxWorks/tornado2.2.1-ppc/host/sun4-solaris2/bin/ccppc, 
> so, apparently, the EPICS build system does not automatically setup to 
> use the correct tools when specifying the target
> vxWorks-mpc8540. What needs to be done to make this work right? Thanks.