RE: known problem with the reccaster on Windows?

[Freddie Akeroyd - STFC UKRI via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Heinz,

 

Are you building as windows-x64 or windows-x64-static architecture?  I was just wondering if the initHook() was running before the winsock library was initialised, which needs to be done by a call to osiSockAttach() somewhere. The DLL based epics build (windows-x64) is a bit more forgiving about this as it loads winsock from WS2_32.DLL which often seems to self-initialise, but I’ve generally found that static EPICS windows builds do not work if you try and use sockets before a call to osiSockAttach() has happened

 

Regards,

 

Freddie

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Mark Rivers via Tech-talk
Sent: 30 January 2024 14:43
To: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>; Heinz Junkes <junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: known problem with the reccaster on Windows?

 

Hi Heinz,

 

What happens if you build ADLightField without reccaster?

 

Have you tried running the ADSimDetector, also built with reccaster?

If you build with the windows-x64-debug architecture then you can debug with Visual Studio and perhaps get more information on what it happening in doCasterTCPPhase.

 

Mark

 

 

 

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From: Tech-talk on behalf of Heinz Junkes via Tech-talk
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 5:11 AM
To: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: known problem with the reccaster on Windows?

 

Hi,
I'm trying to get the autosave working on an IOC running on Windows.
Unfortunately the IOC hangs at iocInit(?) and I can't debug any further.

Unfortunately, I can't figure it out on Windows (I simply have zero experience with it) and maybe I'm just being stupid.

There is an IOC in the areadetector for the Lightfield application. When starting the IOC we get the following error message:

restore: Can t open save file. locRun: All initialization complete
epicsSocketDestroy: failed to close a socket because "An operation was attempted on someth ing that is not a socket. "
epicsSocketDestroy: failed to close a socket because "An operation was attempted on someth ing that is not a socket. "
casterInit failed to create shutdown socketThread win994 (00000112429708B0) can't proceed, suspending.
Dumping a stack trace of thread 'win994':
[ 00007FFF05B709CF](epicsStackTrace+0x7f)
[ 00007FFF05B5E934] (cantProceed+0x94)
[ 00007FFF128044DB] (doCasterTCPPhase+0x7fb)
[ 00007FFF05B58B85] (initHookAnnounce+0xc5)
[ 00007FFF0539EF71] (iocRun+0x151)
[ 00007FFF0539F152](miscIocRegister+0x162)
[ 00007FFF05B56E57](iocsh+0x1127)
[ 00007FF6A2D63B43]
[ 00007FF6A2D62B90]
[ 00007FFF2DCF7344] (BaseThreadInitThunk+0x14)
[ 00007FFF2F6C26B1]RtlUserThreadStart+0x21)

We are running reccaster …
Is this a known problem with the reccaster on Windows?

Danke Heinz