Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Dec 2017 19:27:45 +0000

> We do have MS Visual Studio 14.0

Do you mean Visual C++ 2015 (also known as Visual C++ 14.0)?

If so that version failed for me.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Johnson
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2017 1:19 PM
> To: Michael Davidsaver; Ralph Lange; EPICS core-talk
> Subject: Re: moving initHooks into libCom
> 
> On 12/08/2017 12:20 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> > On 12/08/2017 12:24 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> >> Hi Michael,
> >>
> >> Assuming you're intending it to be merged *after* the 7.0.1 release then
> >> yes, please go ahead and work on it.
> >
> > "Before or after" is my question.  Before would let me eliminate libpvAccessIOC
> > in this release.  This has never been a concern for me, but was for Ralph.
> 
> I would have liked to eliminate that library, but I think it's too late
> now. The EPICS_BASE_PVA_CORE_LIBS variable should probably exclude the
> pvAccessIOC library, and pva2pva could export EPICS_BASE_PVA_IOC_LIBS
> say, which should include both pvAccessIOC and qsrv. That change I would
> still accept. There might need to be an adjustment to the pvDatabase
> module which is now using that variable and was previously linking
> against pvAccessIOC, but I don't know if it actually needs it or not.
> 
> >> However I would prefer that you fix the MSVC compiling issues that have
> >> been reported in pva2pva first, since we should really fix them *before*
> >> the final release which is due out on Tuesday.
> >
> > I'm fighting limited time, and internet access, this week.
> > Also the usual problem that I don't have access to MSVC!
> >
> > How would you like me to approach this?
> > I can't say that I relish spending time on appveyer config,
> > but if APS jenkins doesn't show the failure, then I guess
> > this is my only option.
> 
> Mark Rivers also responded
> > How hard would it be to upgrade the APS Jenkins server from 2010 to 2017
> > Community?  I installed 2017 on my machine this week and it was pretty
> > quick and painless.
> 
> I have less than 12 working hours left until our telecon on Tuesday
> morning when we'll start the final release, and I promised our IT group
> I would continue working on moving the APS EPICS website to a new
> web-server, so I'm running out of time myself.
> 
> We do have MS Visual Studio 14.0 already installed on our Windows build
> agent so I just adjusted the APS Jenkins epics-master-windows job to use
> that instead of 2010 and triggered a rebuild, which seems to be running.
> This job does update the submodules to the git tip, but it will only
> check hourly and trigger automatically when the core/master branch is
> updated so it will be faster to email me to run another build (use my
> gmail if you're still working on it over the weekend).
> 
> > Michael, if you have a pretty good idea how to fix it I could test
> > compiling on 2015 and 2017, either via a git branch or just e-mail.  So
> > far the problem just seems to be 1 file.
> 
> It's probably worth testing those too if you can spare the time, maybe
> after Michael has fixed the build with 14.0 (if it fails!).
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> - Andrew
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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