Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

At TRIUMF, we have adopted the strategy of building all IOC applications 
using statically linked binaries. While this does add some significant 
file size, it makes everything self contained, and the only dependencies 
are the IOC binary linkage to the accordant DBD file.

We deploy to a custom Linux version and it always mounts an NFS share 
where the production binaries are stored. The IOC Linux knows how to 
read the kernel commandline arguments to find it application(s), and has 
a small subset of EPICS base built into it (boots via PXE and runs 
mainly from and in-memory filesystem).

We adopt the practice of having as few IOC binary versions as practical, 
so one IOC application binary version gets used for multiple 
applications. We use a slightly modified EPICS build system that allows 
us to embed static strings into the IOC binary, and those can be 
inspected at runtime or with standard Linux tools to find the modules 
and their versions that comprise the static binaries.

As an aside, I think this is the kind of subject that should be 
discussed in EPICS collaboration meetings, although it doesn't lend 
itself well to the presentation style forum that most meetings have. It 
might be nice to plan a sort of round-table discussion forum for this 
kind of thing, instead.

Rod Nussbaumer
TRIUMF,
Vancouver, Canada

On 10/11/2018 09:54 PM, Vikram Bhagat via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     What is the way to package EPICS application?
> 
> I have developed EPICS IOC application using Base7, Asyn and Stream 
> device. I is working fine on my development computer having Ubuntu OS.
> Now i would like to deploy the IOC application on the other ubuntu 
> computer without installing EPICS base, Asyn etc.
> 
> How i can make package so that i can directly install application on the 
> new PC without installing all stuff separately.
> 
> How people are doing this for EPICS development?
> 
> 
> Thanking you.
> Vikram

References:

EPICS Application Package Vikram Bhagat via Tech-talk

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