RE: EPICS How-To , Installation on Windows

[Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi John,

 

I think most Windows users are using Visual Studio and not mingw.  I have not tested to see how well mingw works with vendor libraries that are compiled with Visual Studio.  I know for sure that Cygwin stopped working with vendor libraries that were compiled with Visual Studio quite a few years ago.

 

Mark

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of John Dobbins via Tech-talk
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:02 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: EPICS How-To , Installation on Windows

 

All,

 

I am attempting to install EPICS on Windows 10 per the EPICS "How-To"

 

https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/how-tos/en/latest/getting-started/installation-windows.html

 

I encounter the errors shown below. 

 

Note that I am not wedded to this method of installation. (I have installed on Windows before but so infrequently that each time is a new adventure.)

 

Any advice appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

John Dobbins

 

Research Support Specialist

Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source

Cornell University

 

www.chess.cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp: In function ‘FILE* epicsTempFile()’:

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:33:20: error: ‘_tempnam’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘tempnam’?

   33 |     char * pName = _tempnam ( "c:\\tmp", "epics" );

      |                    ^~~~~~~~

      |                    tempnam

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:49:26: error: ‘_O_CREAT’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘O_CREAT’?

   49 |     const int openFlag = _O_CREAT | _O_EXCL | _O_RDWR |

      |                          ^~~~~~~~

      |                          O_CREAT

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:49:37: error: ‘_O_EXCL’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘O_EXCL’?

   49 |     const int openFlag = _O_CREAT | _O_EXCL | _O_RDWR |

      |                                     ^~~~~~~

      |                                     O_EXCL

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:49:47: error: ‘_O_RDWR’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘O_RDWR’?

   49 |     const int openFlag = _O_CREAT | _O_EXCL | _O_RDWR |

      |                                               ^~~~~~~

      |                                               O_RDWR

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:50:9: error: ‘_O_SHORT_LIVED’ was not declared in this scope

   50 |         _O_SHORT_LIVED | _O_BINARY | _O_TEMPORARY;

      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:50:26: error: ‘_O_BINARY’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘O_BINARY’?

   50 |         _O_SHORT_LIVED | _O_BINARY | _O_TEMPORARY;

      |                          ^~~~~~~~~

      |                          O_BINARY

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:50:38: error: ‘_O_TEMPORARY’ was not declared in this scope

   50 |         _O_SHORT_LIVED | _O_BINARY | _O_TEMPORARY;

      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:51:38: error: ‘_S_IWRITE’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘S_IWRITE’?

   51 |     int fd = open ( pName, openFlag, _S_IWRITE );

      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~

      |                                      S_IWRITE

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:54:20: error: ‘_fdopen’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘fdopen’?

   54 |         pNewFile = _fdopen ( fd, "w+b" );

      |                    ^~~~~~~

      |                    fdopen

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:59:43: error: ‘errno’ was not declared in this scope

   59 |             "\"%s\"\n", pName, strerror ( errno ) );

      |                                           ^~~~~

../osi/os/WIN32/epicsTempFile.cpp:23:1: note: ‘errno’ is defined in header ‘<cerrno>’; did you forget to ‘#include <cerrno>’?

   22 | #include "epicsTempFile.h"

  +++ |+#include <cerrno>

   23 |

Installing PERL_MODULES file ../../../../lib/perl/EPICS/macLib.pm

make[4]: *** No rule to make target 'epicsTempFile.obj', needed by 'antelope.exe'.  Stop.

make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/admin-jad22/base-7.0.3.1/modules/libcom/src/O.windows-x64-mingw'

make[3]: *** [../../../configure/RULES_ARCHS:58: install.windows-x64-mingw] Error 2

make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/admin-jad22/base-7.0.3.1/modules/libcom/src'

make[2]: *** [../../configure/RULES_DIRS:84: src.install] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/admin-jad22/base-7.0.3.1/modules/libcom'

make[1]: *** [../configure/RULES_DIRS:84: libcom.install] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/admin-jad22/base-7.0.3.1/modules'

make: *** [configure/RULES_DIRS:84: modules.install] Error 2