Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Justin Coleman" <[email protected]> · Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:18:30 -0400

Has anyone successfully built a working EPICS system on Windows XP SP2
that can talk to a Canberra MCA? I've been trying for days with little
success.
I've used current Cygwin (win32-x86-cygwin and cygwin-x86) to build,
and the build process completes but the application is unable to talk
to the MCA. Error messages include "could not set SO_REUSEADDR" and
"could not buy module". The "in use" light on the MCA comes on but
none of the module "ready" lights do. This makes me suspect something
in the network libraries, but I have no idea where to start looking.
As an aside, I tried this under Win98 as well, but couldn't figure out
how to get the NIC's service name to put in the st.cmd script.
I've also tried Borland's free command line toolkit
(win32-x86-borland) as suggested on the EPICS web site, and VC++2005
Express Edition (win32-x86; the VC2003 Tookit is no longer available
from MS), and in both cases the applications crash. Specifically
seq-2.0.11, snc.exe crashes which stops me from completing the seq
build.
I'm using the following releases:
Base 3.14.9 (and 3.14.8.2)
Seq 2.0.11
Asyn 4.8 (and 4.6)
Autosave 4.2.1
Gensub 1.6
Sscan 2.5.3
Calc 2.6.3
Std 2.5.4
MCA 6.9
Winpcap 4.0b3
This identical hardware setup works fine under Linux. If anyone does
have a native WinXP/Canberra interface, I'd love to hear what
releases/versions you're using, so I can get at least one step closer
to having this finished.
Thanks,
-Justin Coleman

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System