RE: [External] RE: Building EPICS 7

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

Hi,

 

Can you check that your   EPICS_HOST_ARCH   environment variable is set to      windows-x64-mingw        it looks from this that the EPICS build system  is trying to build using the visual studio rather than mingw compiler

 

Regards,

 

Freddie

 

 

From: John Dong <jdong at pppl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 11:28 AM
To: Akeroyd, Freddie (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk>
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [External] RE: Building EPICS 7

 

Hi Freddie,

 

I am using Strawberry Perl so I built with mingw.

 

This is the error:

 

 -MD -DEPICS_BUILD_DLL -DEPICS_CALL_DLL   -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I../osi/compiler/msvc -I../osi/compiler/default -I. -I../osi/os/WIN32 -I../osi/os/default -I.. -I../as -I../bucketLib -I../calc -I../cvtFast -I../cppStd -I../cxxTemplates -I../dbmf -I../ellLib -I../env -I../error -I../fdmgr -I../flex -I../freeList -I../gpHash -I../iocsh -I../log -I../macLib -I../misc -I../osi -I../pool -I../ring -I../taskwd -I../timer -I../yacc -I../yacc -I../yajl -I../../../../include/compiler/msvc -I../../../../include/os/WIN32 -I../../../../include         -c ../flex/ccl.c
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, cl -nologo -FC -D__STDC__=0 -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE -Ox -GL -Oy- -W3 -MD -DEPICS_BUILD_DLL -DEPICS_CALL_DLL -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I../osi/compiler/msvc -I../osi/compiler/default -I. -I../osi/os/WIN32 -I../osi/os/default -I.. -I../as -I../bucketLib -I../calc -I../cvtFast -I../cppStd -I../cxxTemplates -I../dbmf -I../ellLib -I../env -I../error -I../fdmgr -I../flex -I../freeList -I../gpHash -I../iocsh -I../log -I../macLib -I../misc -I../osi -I../pool -I../ring -I../taskwd -I../timer -I../yacc -I../yacc -I../yajl -I../../../../include/compiler/msvc -I../../../../include/os/WIN32 -I../../../../include -c ../flex/ccl.c, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
gmake[4]: *** No rule to make target 'ccl.obj', needed by 'e_flex.exe'.  Stop.
gmake[4]: Leaving directory 'C:/EPICS/epics-base/modules/libcom/src/O.windows-x64'
gmake[3]: *** [../../../configure/RULES_ARCHS:58: install.windows-x64] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 'C:/EPICS/epics-base/modules/libcom/src'
gmake[2]: *** [../../configure/RULES_DIRS:85: src.install] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/EPICS/epics-base/modules/libcom'
gmake[1]: *** [../configure/RULES_DIRS:85: libcom.install] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/EPICS/epics-base/modules'
gmake: *** [configure/RULES_DIRS:85: modules.install] Error 2

 

Thanks,

 

John Dong/PPPL

 

 

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:51 PM Freddie Akeroyd - STFC UKRI <freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi, are you building with visual studio or mingw? I’ve seen this error before when building with visual studio and the compiler (cl.exe) is not found in the windows PATH,  it might be the same can  occur with mingw if it can’t locate the compiler either. Could you please post the output of your build showing the error message and lines of output displayed on screen prior to the error

 

Thanks,

 

Freddie  

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of John Dong via Tech-talk
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2024 5:44 PM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Building EPICS 7

 

I encountered the missing CCL.OBJ error when building epics-base. The problem still exists with the current version of Strawberry Perl.

 

John Dong/Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

 

 

Bug 1827225] Re: AppVeyor mingw builds broken (claiming missing epicsTempFile.obj)
From:	Andrew Johnson via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>

@Ralph  I see this is using an older ActiveState Perl, is that configurable somehow? The latest StrawberryPerl packages (available through Chocolatey) install GNU Make-4.2.1 (named "gmake") and gcc as well, so they provide everything we need for a MinGW build. That's what I'm using here and had no problems with.