Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:34:54 -0500

Hi Mark,

asyn does not build under the win32-x86 architecture, for the reasons
you discovered.  It uses the termios API for serial ports, and that does
not seem to be available under native Windows.

I am running quite a few IOCs on Windows machines now, for controlling
Roper CCD detectors, XIA spectroscopy detectors, and running small
laboratories with RS-232 motor controllers.  I use the cygwin-x86
environment so that I can use asyn.

To develop applications with cygwin you need to install basic cygwin
plus "make", "gcc", "perl", "g++" and the "SUN rpc" package.  However,
to run an application that has been built statically with cygwin-x86 you
only need to install the basic cygwin package on the target machine, and
that takes about 2 minutes.  Really all it should need is to have
cygwin1.dll in your PATH on Windows.

With the exception of the message I posted to tech-talk yesterday about
some CA problems, I have had excellent experience with cygwin.  I think
the problems I had yesterday should be viewed as an anomaly, perhaps due
to an errant application.  Rebooting has fixed the problem, at least for
now.

Mark

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System