Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi,

the latest snapshot I uploaded today fixes all the build problems on native
win32 (I used Windows XP running in a VM under Ubuntu and EPICS base
3.14.12.1). I have not yet installed cygwin so this platform may still have
problems.

The tests also build and run w/o errors. However, 'make runtests' sometimes
hangs in the middle of executing the validation tests; restarting it (after a
Ctrl-C) usually helps. I have not found out what exactly causes these hangups,
but I am almost certain that there is something wrong with the perl test
harness, since I never experienced them when running the test scripts manually
(i.e. 'cd test/validate/O.$(T_A); perl xxx.t').

BTW,  I had to make *no* functional changes to the sequencer or compiler code
to make the test suite run through. The only things I had to change were

- many details in the build system
- replace all uses of C99 features by proper conservative C90
- add some Windows specific header includes
- adapt the test script builder

All this makes me confident that a release candidate for 2.1.0 is not too far
off.

BTW, I found a small bug in the EPICS build rules that causes errors when
using 'make -s' on (native) Windows: the definition of the ECHO variable uses
"#" (instead of the echo command) if the MAKEFLAGS contain 's', however on
native Windows "#" does not start a comment! Instead you get "error command #
not found". Using "REM" on Windows fixes this. The snapshot contains a patch
that supplies a workaround by overriding ECHO.

Cheers
Ben

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