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[email protected] · Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:14:08 +1100

Hi Stephanie,

I noticed your question regrading linking of MCA on linux which you posted
to tech-talk in October 2002.  Did you have any success with that?

We're currently looking a Matlab with the idea of using it as part of our
control system for the Australian Synchrotron, and I'm evaluating it on a
Red Hat linux box at the moment.  I've successfully compiled MCA (in
particular mcamain.cpp) and have a little example application up and going
which monitors one process variable. I've found it to be very unstable... I
very frequently get segmentation faults when I run the application and,
after some debugging, the problem appears to be within MCA itself.

I don't suppose you've run into anything like this in your investigations?
My next step is to try it out on Windows and see if I get the same
instability.

Steve Banks
Australian Synchrotron Project
Department of Infrastructure
Level 18, 80 Collins Street
Melbourne   VIC   3000
tel:  +613 9655 6303
fax:  +613 9655 8666
web: www.synchrotron.vic.gov.au

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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