Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:06:41 -0600

Bernd,

Sorry about that, as you point out my zip file had the EPICS base
binaries, but not the libraries.

I have now rebuilt the zip file so it contains the entire contents of:
base-3.14.10/bin/win32-x86
base-3.14.10/lib/win32-x86
extensions/lib/win32-x86
extensions/bin/win32-x86

Note however that on the win32-x86 architecture I use STATIC_BUILD=YES
and SHARE_LIBRARIES=NO.  This allows me to build standalone Windows
applications that can be run on any Windows machine with no additional
DLLs required.

Thus, there are no DLLs from base-3.14.10/bin/win32-x86, and the
libraries from base-3.14.10/lib/win32-x86 (e.g. Com.lib and ca.lib) are
static libraries.

The zip file does include ezcaIDL.dll which is the DLL to call EPICS CA
from IDL.  It is a "stand-alone" DLL, meaning that it does not depend on
any other DLLS; the code from Com, ca, ezca, etc. are all contained in
that single DLL.  Because this version is built with 3.14.10 it can be
used to access large arrays, required, for example, with my new
areaDetector IDL viewer.

The only extensions currently included in this zip file are those from
ezca, EzcaScan, and ezcaIDL.

http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/pub/EPICS_WIN32_binaries.zip

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Schoeneburg, Bernd [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:46 AM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: epics
Subject: Re: CA.DLL for Windows ?

Thank you Mark.
I can find ezca.dll and ezcaIDL.dll but not ca.dll and com.dll in your 
zip file.

- Bernd

Mark Rivers schrieb:
> I have a package of EPICS Windows binaries that you can get at:
>  
> http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/pub/EPICS_WIN32_binaries.zip
>  
> This includes the DLLs and command line utilities from EPICS base
(ca.dll, com.dll, caget.exe, caput.exe, etc).  It also includes EPICS
extensions DLLs such as ezcaIDL.dll, etc.
>  
> I believe the version on the Web was built with 3.14.8.2.
>  
> Mark
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: [email protected] on behalf of Schoeneburg, Bernd
> Sent: Tue 1/20/2009 4:38 AM
> To: epics
> Subject: CA.DLL for Windows ?
> 
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> where do I find the latest version of the channel access dll for
> Windows. I understood that it is delivered with a number of packages.
In
> wich is the latest version?
> 
> Tanks
> -Bernd
> 
> 
> 

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