Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

EPICS Base

This is the main core of EPICS, comprising the build system and tools, common and OS-interface libraries, Channel Access client and server libraries, static and run-time database access routines, the database processing code, and standard record, device and driver support.

There are several different versions of Base that are still in use at the various EPICS sites. There is a separate page for information relating to each major release; differences between any minor release versions are covered within the relevent major release page.

• Release 3.14 (2002-present)
• Release 3.13 (1996-2003)
• Release 3.12 (1995)
• Release 3.11 (1991-1994)

Operating System Hints

The Tornado page provides some help on configuring and patching a vxWorks 5.x Tornado installation for use with EPICS, and the Power PC page gives information about using that particular CPU for people used to using the 68K family.

The RTEMS page provides some pointers to information about the host and target support available for that operating system. Several EPICS sites are now working seriously with this operating system. Eric Norum's Getting started with EPICS on RTEMS tutorial provides a step by step guide for newcomers.

The MS Win32 page gives pointers to the different compilers both commercial and free (as in beer) that can be used to build EPICS on Microsoft Windows systems. There is a free compiler available from Microsoft that can be used, but it requires additional software which is described on the MS Visual C++ Toolkit page.

Development Statistics

A nightly statistical analysis is made of CVS commits to EPICS Base, and includes a complete Commit Log showing the log messages of all CVS commits ever made since the repository was started.