Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

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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