Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Win32 Information

This page provides a repository for information about building EPICS under Microsoft's Win32 environment (Windows NT, 2000 or XP). If you find any other information that ought to go on this page, please let me know.

Compilers and Build tools

EPICS can be built using Microsoft's commercial Visual C++ compiler, their free Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, or Borland's free C++ Builder. There appear to be certain header files missing from the free Microsoft download which are required to build EPICS — the Visual C++ Toolkit link below points to a page that describes the additional software that must be downloaded to use this compiler.

• Microsoft Visual C++
• Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
• Borland C++ Builder

In addition to one of the above compilers, EPICS also needs the following freely downloadable build tools from www.cygwin.com:

• The Cygwin Installer
• Perl
• GNU Make

When installing cygwin, you should set the "Default Text File Type" to be DOS.

In order to extract the files from the EPICS distribution on a Windows system, you also need either a copy of WinZip or an equivalent program, or the following Cygwin packages:

• Tar
• Unzip

If you are cross-compiling for a vxWorks target you will obviously need to have Tornado installed as well.