From d1e1a5f249be994f40365f79e27d746e14107d6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Hill Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:41:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] installed --- README.WIN32 | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 161 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.WIN32 diff --git a/README.WIN32 b/README.WIN32 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..93faf0239 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.WIN32 @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +Compiling EPICS on WIN32 (Windows95/NT) +--------------------------------------- + + -kuk- 11/18/96 questions & comments please + mailto:kasemir@atdiv.lanl.gov + +0) what you will get +-------------------- + +Right now this port of EPICS to WIN32 should allow you to + +* compile almost all EPICS base using Tornado, MS Visual C + and some additional tools: gnumake, a UNIX-like shell, awk, sed, ... + (See below where to get these.) +* load EPICS on a PC IOC (486, pentium), + load simple databases + (no drivers/devices for real I/O available, yet. + Some Greenspring IP support [Relay, Dig, ADC, DAC] is in progress) +* build and use ca.dll on NT or Win95 to access all IOCs, + as well as the Com-library as a DLL. + The remaining libraries are statically linked and + therefore only accessible from programming languages like C, + not general WIN32 apps. +* build gdd, cas and a demo of the new portable CA server on WIN32. +* missing: the sequencer, makeExampleApp etc. and long term tests + +1) see what you have +-------------------- + +To compiler EPICS on WIN32, we need + + WindRiver Systems Tornado (used: 1.0) + Microsoft Visual C (used: 4.0) + +and some tools: + + a Unix-like shell + gnumake + basename + date + mv + touch + sort + +All the above except. the shell are available 'on the net' +as sources which compile with MS Visual C++. +If you cannot/don't want to find them, contact me, please! + +I could not find a shell that's fully operational. +The best one seems to be the Cygnus bash for WIN32, though it +still has errors and doesn't come with sources that compile +under MS VC++. +I use a small self-written shell called knts, +again: Contact me if you need it. + +* The final solution to make the shell, basename, date, ... +* obsolete: +* Use +* 1) no shell scripts +* 2) Perl which is available for Unix and WIN32 + +In addition we need some binaries that I have no sources +for, yet, but that come with Tornado if and only if you +INSTALL THE FULL PACKAGE (!) +Including the 'WTX Test Suite i386/i486' +(under "Select Sub-components" when installing Tornado) + +You should find in your /host/x86-win32/bin dir: + + awk, cat, cp, rm, mkdir + +(There is also a bash and a GNU-make which are really poor, + and WindRiver told me that they do not consider to support + those in the future, so I no longer use them.) + +2) set environment variables +---------------------------- + +Your path should include: +- The EPICS-binaries that we are about to build in base/bin/WIN32 +- The NTtools that you've built in step 1 +- The System (for me it's in NT40...) +- The MS Visual C compiler binaries +- The Tornado binaries + +Check with e.g.: + +/users/kay/Src/epics/nttools >echo $Path +c:\users\kay\src\epics\base\bin\WIN32;c:\users\kay\src\epics\NTtools\bin;C:\NT40 +\system32;C:\NT40;c:\msdev\bin;C:\users\Tornado\host\x86-win32\bin + +On NT, $Path is defined by the operatin system, on Win95, it's $PATH instead. +knts tries to use PATH and falls back on Path, +what should wok on both systems. + +MS Visual C and Tornado should be installed properly with +these env. variables set: + +WIND_BASE=c:\usersTornado +WIND_HOST_TYPE=x86-win32 + +This way the EPICS makesystem can locate Tornado +without any changes to the files in base/config. +So for pc486 the settings in CONFIG_SITE where +you specify the location of VxWorks are ignored, +this information is taken from WIND_BASE and _HOST_TYPE!! + +MSDevDir=C:\MSDEV +include=c:\msdev\include;c:\msdev\mfc\include +lib=c:\msdev\lib;c:\msdev\mfc\lib + +(Setting env. vars. is different: for NT, use Settings/System, +for Win95 use autoexec.bat) + +For EPICS, set: + +# select host arch to build: +HOST_ARCH=WIN32 + +EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST 128.165.32.255 (addr of WIN32 host) +EPICS_CA_AUTO_CA_ADDR_LIST NO +EPICS_CA_CONN_TMO 30.0 +EPICS_CA_BEACON_PERIOD 15.0 +EPICS_CA_REPEATER_PORT 5065 +EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT 5064 +EPICS_TS_MIN_WEST 420 (Germany: -120) + + +To debug knts, set KNTS to 5: +KNTS=5 +export KNTS + +You should do this, however, only if you really want the debugging info. + + +3) building EPICS +----------------- + +Prepare apx. 2 ltr. Tee and type: + + cd /base + gnumake + +Watch for errors and send them to me. + +There might be loads of compiler warnings. +Known errors: +* gnumake seems to be faster than WIN32 sometimes + which results in warnings/errors like + "file has modification date in the future" + for newly vreated things. + Very seldom this is fatal, so you have to + stop gnumake and restart it. +* This is strange because Windows95/NT don't care + about upper/lower case: + WIN32 is WIN32, not win32. Gnumake fails + if e.g. base/src/include/os/WIN32 is ...win32. + +Good luck ! + +-Kay