Re: whether abvisable to use win32 to host EPICS development

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

王林 wrote:
> Hello all,
> My task is to port a LLRF system to EPICS, I use vxWorks5.5.1 and
> EPICS-3.14.8.2, but the CPU board has not been finally determined,
> probably CPCI6200 or CPCI6190.
> A recommended CPU board is CPCI6200 with high performance and a
> MPC8572 dual core processor, which the crossgcc2.9.6 from SNS does not
> support. So I think I can use win32 as EPICS development environment,
> OPI and server(such as ftp and tftp), tornado2.2.1(supports MPC8572)
> on win32 as the cross compiler.
> But I am not sure whether it is an advisable choice, since I have no
> experience of developing EPICS application on win32, I don't know
> whether win32 is suitable as EPICS host, and what problem may occur
> frequently.
> I need advice.
> Thanks
> Lin Wang

Hi,
WindRiver fully supports Windows as a development for vxWorks.
You should not have any problems there.

However, for EPICS I have always favored Unix for EPICS.
So, we use Linux as our development hosts and vxWorks 6.x.
Windriver fully supports vxWorks 6.x on Linux hosts.
Also, EPICS works great with vxWorks 6.x as well.
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/vxWorks6.php

If you need an NFS server to load EPICS applications to your target,
Linux is also great. :)


Cheers,
Ernest