Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Luka Krmpotic via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 9 Sep 2021 14:54:27 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

Following instructions here:
https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/how-tos/en/latest/getting-started/installation-windows-msys2.html

in order to build EPICS base on Windows, using MSYS2 (x64) & mingw (x64).
Build failed looking for <direct.h>

The problem was that compiler being used was
/usr/bin/gcc.exe
instead of
/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe

I solved the problem by prepending /mingw64/bin: to $PATH in my ~/.bashrc,
which wasn't part of the $PATH in the default install.

```
[[ $PATH != *"/mingw64/bin"* ]] && PATH=/mingw64/bin:${PATH}
```

Best,
Luka