Re: Building AreaDetector Vimba driver V 1.5

[Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

It should be fine to just update ADGenICam. 

Updating everything is also pretty low risk, and there are useful enhancements in ADCore.

Mark

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On Dec 16, 2024, at 12:46 PM, Steven Hunt <Hunt at lbl.gov> wrote:



Hi Mark,

we are still on AD R3-11, should I just update GenICam, or the whole AD tree to R3-14???

Steve

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 5:04 AM Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:

Hi Abdalla,

• I still have no idea where this dbd file came from, but it seems to be not used anymore, I created a PR for this. 

If you don't know where a file came from, then you should use "git log", which explains it clearly in this case:

(base) [epics@corvette ~]$ cd devel/areaDetector/ADVimba/iocs/vimbaIOC/vimbaApp/src/

(base) [epics@corvette src]$ git log Makefile

commit a23c8a17959c8dde461b745bf3dbcf906c0d28a1

Author: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>

Date:   Wed Jun 26 16:14:46 2024 -0500

    Add ADGenICamSupport.dbd for genicamShowFeature command

So ADGenICamSupport.dbd was added on June 26, 2024, in order to support the new genicamShowFeature from ADGenICam.  ADSpinnaker and ADAravis were changed the same way.

Mark

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2024 1:58 AM
To: Steven Hunt <Hunt at lbl.gov>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <Tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: RE: Building AreaDetector Vimba driver V 1.5

 

Hi Steven

 

Well we don’t have any IOCs based on ADVimba, but I cloned the latest version of the module and it compiled fine with our setup (ADCore 3.12, genicam 1.9, base 7.0.8), the only modification I did was in the configure/RELEASE file where I removed all includes and put dependencies locations directly:

 

EPICS_BASE

ASYN

ADCORE

ADGENICAM

 

And that’s it. A reference to include ADGenICamSupport.dbd is the iocs/vimbaIOC IOC and in my experience this happens if you have BUILD_IOCS = YES, which can be resolved by one of two choices:

1. Set BUILD_IOCS = NO in configure/CONFIG_SITE
2. Remove the line including the dbd file in iocs/vimbaIOC/vimbaApp/src/Makefile (Works with BUILD_IOCS = YES)

 

I still have no idea where this dbd file came from, but it seems to be not used anymore, I created a PR for this. I did not get the last warning, so I suspect there might be something with your paths definitions, maybe in configure/RELEASE or in the IOC’s configure/RELEASE.

 

Best Regards,

Abdalla.

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Steven Hunt via Tech-talk
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 11:44 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Building AreaDetector Vimba driver V 1.5

 

Hi I am attempting to build the Vimba driver V1.5 downloaded today  from git.

 

I was previously  using V1.4

 

I have not updated other packages -  such as ADCore, ADGenICam etc

 

It fails looking for  file 'ADGenICamSupport.dbd' which I don't have under ADGenICam (which has no dbd directory) or indeed  anywhere in my areaDetector-R3-11 tree, and was therefore seemingly not needed by R1_4 ?

 

make also reports :

Your Makefile may need this dependency rule:
    $(COMMON_DIR)/vimbaApp.dbd: $(COMMON_DIR)/ADGenICamSupport.dbd

 

Which is a red herring?