RE: EPICS How-To , Installation on Windows

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

I believe Community Edition 2019 works fine, though I have only tested up to 2017.  And Strawberry Perl will give you perl and gnumake.

 

Mark

 

 

From: John Dobbins <john.dobbins at cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:59 PM
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: EPICS How-To , Installation on Windows

 

Mark,

 

"I think most Windows users are using Visual Studio and not mingw."

 

Good to know.  Looking at various pages it wasn't clear what practice is common these days.

 

Is Community Edition 2019 known to work? This plus Strawberry PERL?

 

John

 

 

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From: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 1:48 PM
To: John Dobbins <john.dobbins at cornell.edu>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: RE: EPICS How-To , Installation on Windows

 

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