Re: Window build error - can find script. [SEC=OFFICIAL]

["Hu, Yong via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

This appears to be a classic Windows path separator issue, where backslashes (\) and forward slashes (/) get mixed up.

Using a native Windows version of GNU Make might be the cleanest solution. Alternatively, you can override the TOOLS variable by adding the following line to adSpectrum/CONFIG_SITE (or adSpectrum/CONFIG_SITE.local): TOOLS = $(EPICS_BASE_HOST_BIN)

Yong

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2026 at 9:12 AM
To: Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>, STARRITT, Andrew <andrews at ansto.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Window build error - can find script. [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Hi Andrew,

Does this error happen only when building ADSpectrum, and not when building ADCore, etc.?

I don't know what ADSpectrum is.  Where is it located?

Mark

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Subject: Window build error - can find script. [SEC=OFFICIAL]

 

Hi all,

One of my colleagues is having a windows build issue building areaDetector-R3-13/adSpectrum using base-7.0.8 on windows-x64 architecture.

He is getting same result with 7.0.10

The error:

C:\controls_sw\devel\areaDetector-R3-13\adSpectrum>make

make: Entering directory `C:/controls_sw/devel/areaDetector-R3-13/adSpectrum'

make -C ./configure install

make[1]: Entering directory `C:/controls_sw/devel/areaDetector-R3-13/adSpectrum/configure'

perl -CSD C:/controls_sw/devel/areaDetector-R3-13/adSpectrum/configure/c:/controls_sw/devel/epics-base-R7.0.8/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl O.windows-x64 ../..

Can't open perl script "C:/controls_sw/devel/areaDetector-R3-13/adSpectrum/configure/c:/controls_sw/devel/epics-base-R7.0.8/bin/windows-x64/makeMakefile.pl": Invalid argument

make[1]: *** [O.windows-x64] Error 22

Changing TOOLS = $(abspath $(EPICS_BASE_HOST_BIN)) to TOOLS = $(EPICS_BASE_HOST_BIN) in

epics base CONFIG_BASE fixes the issue when compiling under windows.

Is there a better way to get this to work?

Thanks in advance

Andrew Starritt

Australian Synchrotron