Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Rozelle Wright <[email protected]> · Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:15:20 -0600

I am feeling a little stupid, but thought I would share my experience with
others, because the error messages are not really helpful.

I downloaded epics3.14.beta2 onto my Windows XP system yesterday and used
makeBaseApp.pl from that epics version to make an example application,

which I then built and tried to run

by changing to iocBoot/ioctest and then running

.../../bin/WIN32-x86/example st.cmd

The results were the following:

$ start

############################################################################

### @(#)EPICS IOC CORE built on Jun 3 2002

$R3-14-0-beta-1$ $2001/09/13 19:13:12$

############################################################################

Starting iocInit

initializing iwfcreate

filename="../recGbl.c" line number=114

Missing device support entry table PV: RozelleHost:aiExample ai: init_record

filename="../recGbl.c" line number=114

Missing device support entry table PV: RozelleHost:aiExample1 ai: init_record

filename="../recGbl.c" line number=114

Missing device support entry table PV: RozelleHost:aiExample2 ai: init_record

filename="../recGbl.c" line number=114

Missing device support entry table PV: RozelleHost:aiExample3 ai: init_record

filename="../recGbl.c" line number=114

Missing device support entry table PV: RozelleHost:xxxExample xxx: init_record

iocInit: All initialization complete
If you look very closely at the first line, you see that it is loading
3.14.beta1 instead of 3.14.beta2, even though example.exe was built with
3.14.beta2. The problem turned out to be that I still had

base3.14.beta1/bin/WIN32-x86 in my path rather than
base3.14.beta2/bin/WIN32-x86. Windows uses my path to locate the shared
libraries containing iocCore and gets the wrong ones.

Rozelle Wright

[email protected]

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System