Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:00:37 -0500

You are missing something with the dbd files or Makefile.

Here's how I normally do it.  In the module that defines the record (in this case the mca record in the mca module) create a file called mcaSupport.dbd that includes mcaRecord.dbd:

corvette> more mcaSupport.dbd 
################
# RECORD SUPPORT
################
include "mcaRecord.dbd"

In the module that will use the record (in this case the same module) in the appInclude.dbd file, include mcaSupport.dbd:

corvette> more mcaInclude.dbd
include "base.dbd"
include "mcaSupport.dbd"

In your Makefile you need lines like these:

# xxxRecord.h will be created from xxxRecord.dbd
DBDINC += mcaRecord
# <name>.dbd will be created from <name>Include.dbd
DBD += mca.dbd
DBD += mcaSupport.dbd
#=============================
LIBRARY_IOC += mca
mca_SRCS += mcaRecord.c
mca_LIBS += $(EPICS_BASE_IOC_LIBS)

Mark

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Heinrich du Toit
Sent: Fri 7/6/2007 3:45 AM
To: TechTalk EPICS
Subject: trouble with custom record

Ok so I read all the stuff on custom records.. And I think I understand
the programming part and how the functions should get called ect ect.

But I can't seem to get the things to compile?
I have myRecord.dbd with record def inside. dbToRecordH thingy works
I have myRecord.c with the code. It can compile fine.

But I can't seem to get this to load into the actual ioc.
When I try to DBLoadDataBase(myRecord.dbd) then it complains about
dbCommon.dbd not available.

If I try to load myRecord.dbd as part of my ioc.dbd with the makefile
the I get some error in ioc_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp

if I try to get it to "expand" a new .dbd for my record it complains
about menu stuff missing.

help?

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System