Re: EDM on Cygwin

["Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto@slac.stanford.edu>]

Hi,

For web-based Channel Access please take a look at CAML:
http://www.ornl.gov/~t6p/Main/CAML.html


Cheers,
Ernest


Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc. wrote:
> Thanks Mark and John. This might be the excuse I was looking for to develop
> a web based AJAX interface for our application so that the control panels
> can be platform independent.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Pawel Kowalski
> BiRa Systems Inc.
> www.bira.com
>
> Phone:		505-881-8887
> Fax:			505-888-0651
>
> Address:		2410 Midtown PL NE 
>        STE A
>        Albuquerque NM 87107 USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rivers [mailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:35 AM
> To: Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc.; John William Sinclair; Tech-talk
> Subject: RE: EDM on Cygwin
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> Note that you can run edm on a Linux machine, for example, and display
> on Windows with an X package like Exceed.  Since edm is a channel access
> client it does not need to run on the same machine as your IOC.
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc. [mailto:pawel@bira.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:33 AM
> To: Mark Rivers; 'John William Sinclair'; 'Tech-talk'
> Subject: RE: EDM on Cygwin
>
> Is there a tool that can convert EDM screens to MEDM screens (I see
> there is
> adl2edl for doing this in reverse)?
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Pawel Kowalski
> BiRa Systems Inc.
> www.bira.com
>
> Phone:		505-881-8887
> Fax:			505-888-0651
>
> Address:		2410 Midtown PL NE 
>        STE A
>        Albuquerque NM 87107 USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rivers [mailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:24 AM
> To: John William Sinclair; Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc.; Tech-talk
> Subject: RE: EDM on Cygwin
>
> medm can be built on Windows, but you can also download a pre-built
> version from the EPICS Web pages:
>
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/distributions/win32/index.php
>
> It definitely works with Exceed, but also with some other free X
> packages.
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov
> [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of John William
> Sinclair
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:17 AM
> To: Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc.; Tech-talk
> Subject: Re: EDM on Cygwin
>
> Pawel,
>
> EDM will never, ever build on cygwin.
>
> Note that a new initiative is in the works to build control system gui 
> tools using the eclipse
> RCP platform. This will give you access from windows.
>
> There is also an older display manager, MEDM, which I believe will 
> compile in a windows
> environment with certain  3rd party X Windows tools. I don't know the 
> details but someone
> on the tech-talk list may be able to help.
>
> John Sinclair
>
> Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc. wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> >  
> >
> > I am having an issue with getting EDM to compile on cygwin. I noticed 
> > that in the EDM documentation it says that LessTif is not recommended;
> >     
>   
> > but that seems to be the only option available with cygwin as I can't 
> > find the OpenMotif package. Is this my issue or am I doing something 
> > else wrong? I also saw that the makefiles under EDM set 
> > SHARED_LIBRARIES = YES, is this a problem under cygwin?
> >  
> >
> > I attached the make log, help would be appreciated.
> >
> >  
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> >  
> >
> > Pawel Kowalski
> >
> > BiRa Systems Inc.
> >
> > www.bira.com <http://www.bira.com>
> >
> >  
> >
> > *Phone:*                   505-881-8887
> >
> > *Fax:*                       505-888-0651
> >
> >  
> >
> > *Address:*                2410 Midtown PL NE
> >
> > STE A
> >
> > Albuquerque NM 87107 USA
> >
> >  
> >
> >     
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   
> > Pawel Kowalski@bira-a4f57d2df6 /epics/base/extensions/src/edm
> > $ make
> > make -C ./util install
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util'
> > make -C O.cygwin-x86 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../.. T_A=cygwin-x86
> >     
> install
>   
> > make[2]: Entering directory
> >     
> `/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util/O.cygwin-x86'
>   
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../O.Common/os.h', needed by
> >     
> `inc'.  Stop.
>   
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> >     
> `/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util/O.cygwin-x86'
>   
> > make[1]: *** [install.cygwin-x86] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util'
> > make: *** [util.install] Error 2
> >     
>
>
>