Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:31:44 +0000

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That's a problem of make, actually.

The topic is covered in the official Windows installation instructions.
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/getting-started/installation-windows.html*windows-path-names__;Iw!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZdlafAS4_3yKWJ4Ws-SaiP45v3NoDLtAdV1SXZiiPvQ9JRRHUliUpnBOdBmXK7MLUilZ4viwjpIbgIMaZX7W7W-W3IQ$ 

Cheers,
~Ralph

On 2024-06-26 at 15:25, tech-talk at aps.anl.gov wrote:

>
> Hi Hussein,
>
> Unfortunately the EPICS build rules and our Makefiles don't work when the
path to Base or other modules contain spaces, and it would be quite a lot
of work to fix that (patches welcome if it's important to you!). You can't
just change a configuration setting to get around that.
>
> Thank-you for posting the complete error messages. It looks like you have
Base installed inside a MS Visual Studio BuildTools subdirectory. That is
not a good location, I recommend that you build it somewhere like
C:\epics\base. In addition to Base you will be installing and building
other support modules such as Asyn, so that layout lets you
useC:\epics\asyn for that, and so on.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Andrew
>
> On 6/26/24, 9:26 AM, "Tech-talk" <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am setting up EPICS Base on my Windows 10 machine, but I get a compile
> error when I run the Makefile in the EPICS Base directory:
>
> perl -CSD C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl
> O.windows-x64 ../../../..
> Can't open perl script "C:/Program": No such file or directory
>
> It seems that my compiler does not interpret the path to the Perl script
> correctly, as it only captures the path up to the first space. As a
> result, the Perl script cannot be found.
>
> Can you tell me why this is happening and how I can fix the problem?
> Which configuration file do I need to edit to correct this?
>
> The complete output of the makefile:
>
> make
> C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -C
> ./configure install
> make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/configure'
> C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -C
> O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. \
>      T_A=windows-x64 install
> make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/configure/O.windows-x64'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/configure/O.windows-x64'
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/configure'
> C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -C ./src
> install
> make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src'
> C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -C ./tools
> install
> make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src/tools'
> C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -C
> O.windows-x64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. \
>      T_A=windows-x64 install
> make[3]: Entering directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src/tools/O.windows-x64'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src/tools/O.windows-x64'
> make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src/tools'
> C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -C
> template/base install
> make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src/template/base'
> perl -CSD C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl
> O.windows-x64 ../../../..
> Can't open perl script "C:/Program": No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [../../../configure/RULES_ARCHS:67: O.windows-x64] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src/template/base'
> make[1]: *** [../configure/RULES_DIRS:85: template/base.install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2022/BuildTools/epics-base/src'
> make: *** [configure/RULES_DIRS:85: src.install] Error 2
>
> Thanks
> Hussein
>
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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