Re: Create record name manifest during build

[Anders Lindh Olsson via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

You could use our run-iocsh util for this. Unfortunately,publicly you can't view source or published docs right now because of our GitLab situation (it not being publicly visible), but it is still downloadable and it is python so you can inspect source from your install. We will be moving the source to GitHub these coming days.

Cheers

A

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: 24 July 2026 08:57
To: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Create record name manifest during build

 

On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 at 08:24, Jure Varlec via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On 7/23/26 22:26, David Bracey via Tech-talk wrote:
> But I think we can’t wait until we launch the IOC - we may need to do it at build time.

Well, you don't need a fully functional IOC to get the list of records, the dbl command works before iocInit. So, you may be able to use the softIoc executable as a build-time tool. Just define the macros, load the databases, have dbl write to a file, and exit. Networking and such doesn't happen until iocInit, so using softIoc this way shouldn't be problematic. Probably ;)

Sweet!

And definitely low-effort and low-maintenance compared to unearthing the IRMIS crawlers...

The only thing... I'm not able to create a startup script that exits the softIoc after it loads databases and dumps the record list. Is there a way to do that? (Would make it a lot easier to include this in the build.)

Cheers,
~Ralph