This repository contains the "Beamline_elements" frontend, which is used to control beamline devices such as magnets, slits or beamblockers of indivual instruments from MIDAS.

This file is almost a verbatim copy of https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/src/develop/msetpoint/epics_fe.cxx from core MIDAS. The only reason this repository exists is that "epics_fe.cxx" is written as a C-style frontend, where the equipment and frontend is hardcoded in the binary. Hence, this copy changes "EPICS Frontend" and "EPICS" to "Beamline_elements" to match the agreed upon naming convention.

Requirements

Environment variable MIDASSYS which is a path to the MIDAS shared libraries and headers. The libraries must be in $MIDASSYS/lib, the headers in $MIDASSYS/include.
Environment variable EPICSSYS which is a path to the EPICS shared libraries and headers. The libraries must be in $EPICSSYS/lib, the headers in $EPICSSYS/include.

Build

Clone this repository, enter the cloned directory, and then build via CMake.

cmake -S "$(pwd)" -B <directory-to-build-in>
cmake --build <directory-to-build-in> --clean-first -- -j8

Run

<directory-to-build-in>/Beamline_elements_scfe