Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Anybody tried running EPICS under WSL?  I was just playing around, trying to decide if heading down the EPICS path makes sense for our lab. 

 

I followed the docs at: https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/how-tos/en/latest/getting-started/installation.html

I had to edit the EpicsHostArch script to change the line endings from CRLF to LF (or was it vice-versa?).  After that, the build went well.  I tried to run softIoc to do a test, and got the following:

 

$ softIoc

Error: Invalid character 'c'

at or before "c" in file "/home/leblanc/EPICS/epics-base/bin/linux-x86_64/../../dbd/softIoc.dbd" line 1

Error: Invalid character 'a'

Error: Invalid character 'l'

Error: Invalid character 'c'

Error: Invalid character 'o'

Error: Invalid character 'u'

Error: Invalid character 't'

Error: Invalid character 'D'

Error: Invalid character 'O'

Error: Invalid character 'P'

Error: Invalid character 'T'

Error: syntax error

Error: Failed to load DBD file: /home/leblanc/EPICS/epics-base/bin/linux-x86_64/../../dbd/softIoc.dbd

 

At which point   I decided that was enough for a Friday night.  I wonder if it might also be line endings, since file reports:

 

$ file EPICS/epics-base/dbd/softIoc.dbd

EPICS/epics-base/dbd/softIoc.dbd: ASCII text, with CRLF, LF line terminators

 

Am I out to lunch, or is it worth a try next week?

     Greg

 

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Gregory Leblanc

Accelerator Engineer

Edwards Accelerator Lab - Ohio University

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Athens, OH 45701

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