EPICS on windows10 Debian Shell

[Alfio Rizzo via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi,

I guess I understood what was the issue with the binding socket I had.

(see my previous message “Error binding socket”)

I have installed a WSL Linux (Debian) Shell app on Windows10

to try to see if I can avoid to install a Linux VM on my laptop.

So actually I succeeded to compiled EPICS and run it,

with the native Debian GNU Linux compiler ( 8.3.0).

As it should be, the OS macro is defined as __linux__ not as _WIN32,

since the compiler is NOT MinGW or CYGWIN, but GNU as I said before.

So, then it comes issue I had was this UDP socket biding issue,

since binding is still handled a la Windows.

So the problem is in the source file blockingUDPTransport.cpp

where the macro _WIN32 is not used consistently in my case.

I tested to commented/uncommented the relevant code by the macro and indeed

It works as expected (no more bind socket error)

However I would like to know the opinion of the code developers (Marty Kraimer?)

and also if it would be possible to modify this file in a way

to include the option to use Windows way to handle UDP socket even if is a GNU compiler

(some ad-hoc env variable?)

 

Thanks

Alfio

 

 

PhD Alfio Rizzo

Control System Integrator

Integrated Control Systems Division

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