Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

• Something is wrong with your setup if you need to add anything to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to build areaDetector on Windows.  
  

• Something is wrong with your setup if you need to add anything to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to build areaDetector on Linux.

Hi Abdalla,

You did not tell us what EPICS_HOST_ARCH you are building for.  Is it windows-x64 or windows-x64-static?

You did not send the complete command that generated that error message.  Please do that.

• Linux systems I get the similar linker error (Cannot find –lxml2) whenever which is resolved by adding the ADSupport/lib/linux-x86_64 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Something is wrong with your setup if you need to add anything to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to build areaDetector on Windows.  That should not be necessary. 

• but on Windows 10 it is a different story. In my configure/CONFIG_STE I have XML2_EXTERNAL=NO, In my iocApp/src/Makefile,

XML2_EXTERNAL=NO must be set in the areaDetector/configure/CONFIG_SITE.local files.  That controls how ADSupport is built.  Did you do that?  You should not set XML2_EXTERNAL=NO in the iocApp/src/Makefile, you should only set it in the areaDetector/configure/CONFIG_SITE.local files.  Those should be loaded when you build the ADPcoWin application.

• and the windows PATH variable points to the same location but still I get the same LNK1181 issue.

As with LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux there is no need to set PATH on Windows to include any areaDetector locations when building.

I just built ADPcoWin for both the windows-x64 and windows-x64-static architectures with no problems.  I am using the master branch of ADCore, ADSupport, ADPcoWin, and base 7.0.7.

Mark

Hi

I am trying to compile an ADPcoWin IOC on a Windows 10 host (EPICS Base 3.15.6 and master branches for all modules), basically the compilation for all modules is straightforward, but when compiling the IOC, I got the following error:

LNK1181: cannot open input file 'xml2.lib'

Linux systems I get the similar linker error (Cannot find –lxml2) whenever which is resolved by adding the ADSupport/lib/linux-x86_64 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH but on Windows 10 it is a different story. In my configure/CONFIG_STE I have XML2_EXTERNAL=NO, In my iocApp/src/Makefile, I included the ADCore/ADApp/commonDriverMakefile to properly link with all components of AD, the “link” command even points to ADSupport/lib/linux-x86_64, and the windows PATH variable points to the same location but still I get the same LNK1181 issue. As a workaround, I had to remove the XML2 check from the commonDriverMakefile and the IOC compiled successfully. What would be the issue with the XML2 library?

Best Regards,

Abdalla.

Abdalla Al-Dalleh

Control Engineer

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