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I’m not married to MSYS, it just happened to be the only version of make.exe on my PC – if this might be an issue, I can try another distribution of GNUmake. Is there a recommended one?

> What version of Base did you install?

I am on launchpad’s version tag 3.15.

 

Make –version:

GNU Make 3.81

<license blurb omitted>

This program built for i686-pc-msys

 Perl –v:

This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

make show-makefiles:
Can't open perl script ".": Permission denied

make: *** No rule to make target `show-makefiles'.  Stop.

 

Make PRINT.*: <all of these are the same output:

Can't open perl script ".": Permission denied

make: *** No rule to make target `PRINT.MAKE'.  Stop.

From: Johnson, Andrew N. <anj at anl.gov> 

Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 2:20 PM
To: Daykin, Evan <daykin at frib.msu.edu>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Build system prepending $(TOP) to make path on win32-x86

 

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Hi Evan,

 

I’m not an MSYS user myself (I’m not keen on the way it uses its own /c/… paths) but there are other people here with more experience of using it who I hope will respond (I think they recommend MSYS2 now though, do you know the difference?). In the meantime some basic questions to provide us with a bit more information: 

 

What version of Base did you install?

 

Can you try running these commands in your test2 directory and post the results please:

 

make —version

perl -v

make show-makefiles

make PRINT.MAKE

make PRINT.CONVERTRELEASE

make PRINT.RELEASE_TOPS

 

- Andrew

 

On Oct 27, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Daykin, Evan via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

 

Good Afternoon,

 

I am attempting to get the EPICS build system working on win32-x86 architecture. I have successfully built base, but I get some strange behavior after trying to build an IOC created via makeBaseApp.pl. Here is what I run:

 

mkdir test2

cd test2

makeBaseApp.pl –t ioc test

makeBaseApp.pl –i –t ioc test

 

directory structure is now:

-configure

-iocBoot

-testApp

Makefile

 

configure/RELEASE points at the correct EPICS_BASE

 

Now, when I try running make, the following output results:

 

PS C:\Users\daykin\scratch\test2> make

Can't open perl script ".": Permission denied

/c/Users/daykin/scratch/test2/"C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/make.exe" -C ./configure install

/bin/sh: /c/Users/daykin/scratch/test2/C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/make.exe: No such file or directory

make.exe": *** [configure.install] Error 127

 

See the third line: Somehow, my $(TOP) is prepended to the location of make. It should just be running “C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/make.exe”. I’m not sure if this is also the cause of “Can’t open perl script ‘.’”, which also seems strange.

 

Is there something I’m missing here?

 

-Evan

 

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