Installing EPICS on Windows

[Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi

 

In our experience with EPICS on Windows, I noticed that most of the time we have the same environment setup, so I developed a batch script to help us automate installing EPICS on Windows, here is the repo for the script, called epics-online.bat, https://github.com/AbdallaDalleh/epics-windows . The script is currently being tested on Windows 11 but was previously working on 10 for a short time.

 

The script clones everything from GitHub, the repo contains pre-defined RELEASE files for most of the modules and it automatically copies them to the modules’ configure folder. The script calls another script, sanity-check.bat, which verifies all prerequisites:

• Visual Studio 2022.
• Git
• Strawberry Perl
• Re2c (included).

 

Besides some TODOs that needs to be done, the script has been tested many times on Windows 11, feel free to test it on your platforms and I’ll be happy for any feedback.

 

Thanks!

 

Best Regards,

Abdalla Al-Dalleh

Control Engineer

SESAME

P.O. Box 7, Allan 19252, Jordan
Tel: +96253511348 , ext. 265

Fax: +96253511423

Email : abdalla.ahmad at sesame.org.jo
Website: www.sesame.org.jo