Experimental Physics and
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On May 6, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On 5/6/20 7:22 AM, Carsten Winkler via Tech-talk wrote:

Hi,

I successfully compiled Epics 7.0.3.1 for Windows 7 x64. When I start softIoc.exe without dbd-parameter (-D), everything is fine. But when I specify the path for the same dbd file, I get an illegal option error.
(I wanna move the dbd file for a client application.)

What do I wrong?

Nothing.  The bad news is that this was a mistake with 7.0.3.1
which has since been fixed.  The good news is that -D is no longer needed
to find softIoc.dbd in its default location ../../dbd/softIoc.dbd
relative to softIoc.exe.  So in your example you should be able to omit '-D'.

https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2019/msg01822.php

Best regards
Carsten

C:\>"C:\base-7.0.3.1\bin\windows-x64\softIoc.exe" -D "C:\base-7.0.3.1\dbd\softIoc.dbd" -d "\DemoIOC\db\demo.db"
*C:\base-7.0.3.1\bin\windows-x64\softIoc.exe: illegal option -- D*
Usage: C:\base-7.0.3.1\bin\windows-x64\softIoc.exe [-D softIoc.dbd] [-h] [-S] [-s] [-a ascf]
[-m macro=value,macro2=value2] [-d file.db]
[-x prefix] [st.cmd]

    -D <dbd>  If used, must come first. Specify the path to the softIoc.dbdfile.        The compile-time install location is saved in the binary as a default.

    -h  Print this mesage and exit.

    -S  Prevents an interactive shell being started.

    -s  Previously caused a shell to be started.  Now accepted and ignored.

    -a <acf>  Access Security configuration file.  Macro substitution is
        performed.

    -m <MAC>=<value>,... Set/replace macro definitions used by subsequent -d and
        -a.

    -d <db>  Load records from file (dbLoadRecords).  Macro substitution is
        performed.

    -x <prefix>  Load softIocExit.db.  Provides a record "<prefix>:exit".
        Put 0 to exit with success, or non-zero to exit with an error.

Any number of -m and -d arguments can be interspersed; the macros are applied
to the following .db files.  Each later -m option causes earlier macros to be
discarded.

A st.cmd file is optional.  If any databases were loaded the st.cmd file will
be run *after* iocInit.  To perform iocsh commands before iocInit, all database
loading must be performed by the script itself, or by the user from the
interactive IOC shell.

Compiled-in path to softIoc.dbd is:
        C:\base-7.0.3.1\bin\windows-x64\../../dbd/softIoc.dbd
Unknown argument: -?

C:\>


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