RE: Soft IOC on Windows PC

["Mark Rivers" <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Hi Gorka,
 
You need to chose which architecture to build for.  The ones I have used are cygwin-x86, and win32-x86.  cygwin-x86 requires that you install the Cygwin package, while win32-x86 requires the Microsoft VC compiler (plus perl and GNU make, which I get from Cygwin).
 
You build your EPICS application just as you would for Linux or vxWorks.  The EPICS build system will create a Windows executable (.exe) file which is your application.  You then start that application and pass it the name of a startup script (st.cmd) that configures your IOC.
 
I typically modify <base>/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.win32-x86.win32-x86 and CONFIG_SITE.cygwin-x86.cygwin-x86 to contain the lines
 
SHARED_LIBRARIES=NO
STATIC_BUILD=YES
 
so that the .exe file is standalone and does not require a lot of DLLs to run it.  I find that makes distribution to non-development systems easier, but that's a personal preference.
 
Mark
 

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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov on behalf of Gorka Ronda
Sent: Fri 7/16/2010 5:36 AM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Soft IOC on Windows PC



Hi all,

 

Can anyone tell me what steps to take to create a Soft Or 'Host-based' IOC on a Windows PC? The PC will control a board connected via RS-232. I have to use StreamDevice device support with its interface to asynDriver?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Gorka Ronda