Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Base Release 3.14

This is the current release of base. The main enhancements that have been implemented in 3.14 are:

• Make the core IOC code portable to operating systems other than vxWorks
• IOCs can run on vxWorks, RTEMS, Solaris, GNU/Linux, Mac OS-X (Darwin), HP-UX and MS Windows
• Existing hardware support from vxWorks will not work under other operating systems unless explicitly converted, although vxWorks drivers using devLib should work under RTEMS with little alteration.

Point Releases

There have been many releases of the 3.14 version of Base. Each has its own page containing links to documentation and the relevent files in the software download area.

• Release R3.14.12
• Release R3.14.11
• Release R3.14.10
• Release R3.14.9
• Release R3.14.8.x
• Release R3.14.7
• Release R3.14.6
• Release R3.14.5
• Release R3.14.4
• Release R3.14.3
• Release R3.14.2
• Release R3.14.1
• Release R3.14.0beta2
• Release R3.14.0beta1
• Release R3.14.0alpha2
• Release R3.14.0alpha1

Platforms Supported

The following host platforms are supported in the latest release above:

• Solaris on sparc or x86, using Sun's compiler or GCC
• WIN32 on x86 using MSVC++, Cygwin, or MinGW
• GNU/Linux on x86, x86_64, PowerPC, ARM or Cris
• MacOS X (Darwin) on x86 or PowerPC

These IOC target platforms are currently supported:

• vxWorks 5.4.x, 5.5.x (Tornado 2.x) on any CPU previously supported.
  See EPICS Tornado Hints
• vxWorks 6.x on powerPC CPUs.
• RTEMS on any supported CPU [MC68040 (MVME167), MC68360, x86, uC5282].
  See EPICS on RTEMS
• Solaris on sparc or x86
• WIN32 on x86
• GNU/Linux on x86 or x86_64
• MacOS X (Darwin) on PowerPC or x86

Software Download

All previously released versions of Base are now publicly available, including a nightly snapshot of the R3-14 branch of the EPICS CVS repository. To discover the size of the download files in advance, visit the Base Download area.

Related Software

All hardware support, the sequencer, gpib support, and some other products have been unbundled from base. Versions of the sequencer and gpib that have been converted to R3.14 are available from the links below. Other hardware and software support modules may be found via the hardware support database, but might not have a R3.14 version available.

• State Notation Compiler/Sequencer (BESSY)
• asynDriver, replaces devGpib (APS)
• Other drivers that were unbundled from Base R3.13 (APS)