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Document stream-base.dbd usage when sCalcout is not needed
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@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Make sure that the <em>asyn</em> library can be found by adding the path to the
ASYN=/home/epics/asyn4-30
</pre>
<h4>Support for <em>sCalcout</em> record</h4>
<h4 id="scalcout">Support for <em>sCalcout</em> record</h4>
<p>
The <a
href="https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epics-modules/calc/R3-6-1/documentation/sCalcoutRecord.html"
@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ modules. Release R2-8 or newer is recommended.
</p>
<p>
Support for the <em>sCalcout</em> is optional. <em>StreamDevice</em> works
as well without <em>sCalcout</em> or <em>SynApps</em>.
as well without <em>sCalcout</em> or <em>SynApps</em>. If your application does
not need this record support, you may load <kbd>stream-base.dbd</kbd> instead of
<kbd>stream.dbd</kbd>, making it optional to include <em>calc</em> as an
application dependency.
</p>
<h4>Support for regular expression matching</h4>
@ -185,13 +188,14 @@ Regular expressions are optional. If you don't want them, you don't need this.
Go to the <em>StreamDevice</em> directory
and run <code>make</code> (or <code>gmake</code>).
This will create and install the <em>stream</em> library and the
<kbd>stream.dbd</kbd> file and an example IOC application.
<em>StreamDevice</em> database definition files and an example IOC application.
</p>
<p>
To use <em>StreamDevice</em>, your own application must be built with the
<em>stream</em> and <em>asyn</em> (and optionally <em>pcre</em>) libraries
and must load <kbd>asyn.dbd</kbd> and <kbd>stream.dbd</kbd>.
and must load <kbd>asyn.dbd</kbd> and <kbd>stream.dbd</kbd> (or alternatively
<kbd>stream-base.dbd</kbd>; see <a href="#scalcout">Support for sCalcout record</a>).
</p>
<p>
Include the following lines in your application <kbd>Makefile</kbd>: