Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:35:02 -0600

Not that I know of.

Note that you can run edm on a Linux machine, for example, and display
on Windows with an X package like Exceed.  Since edm is a channel access
client it does not need to run on the same machine as your IOC.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc. [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:33 AM
To: Mark Rivers; 'John William Sinclair'; 'Tech-talk'
Subject: RE: EDM on Cygwin

Is there a tool that can convert EDM screens to MEDM screens (I see
there is
adl2edl for doing this in reverse)?

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Pawel Kowalski
BiRa Systems Inc.
www.bira.com

Phone:		505-881-8887
Fax:			505-888-0651

Address:		2410 Midtown PL NE 
       STE A
       Albuquerque NM 87107 USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rivers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:24 AM
To: John William Sinclair; Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc.; Tech-talk
Subject: RE: EDM on Cygwin

medm can be built on Windows, but you can also download a pre-built
version from the EPICS Web pages:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/distributions/win32/index.php

It definitely works with Exceed, but also with some other free X
packages.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John William
Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:17 AM
To: Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc.; Tech-talk
Subject: Re: EDM on Cygwin

Pawel,

EDM will never, ever build on cygwin.

Note that a new initiative is in the works to build control system gui 
tools using the eclipse
RCP platform. This will give you access from windows.

There is also an older display manager, MEDM, which I believe will 
compile in a windows
environment with certain  3rd party X Windows tools. I don't know the 
details but someone
on the tech-talk list may be able to help.

John Sinclair

Pawel Kowalski - BiRa Systems Inc. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> I am having an issue with getting EDM to compile on cygwin. I noticed 
> that in the EDM documentation it says that LessTif is not recommended;

> but that seems to be the only option available with cygwin as I can't 
> find the OpenMotif package. Is this my issue or am I doing something 
> else wrong? I also saw that the makefiles under EDM set 
> SHARED_LIBRARIES = YES, is this a problem under cygwin?
>
>  
>
> I attached the make log, help would be appreciated.
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>  
>
> Pawel Kowalski
>
> BiRa Systems Inc.
>
> www.bira.com <http://www.bira.com>
>
>  
>
> *Phone:*                   505-881-8887
>
> *Fax:*                       505-888-0651
>
>  
>
> *Address:*                2410 Midtown PL NE
>
> STE A
>
> Albuquerque NM 87107 USA
>
>  
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Pawel Kowalski@bira-a4f57d2df6 /epics/base/extensions/src/edm
> $ make
> make -C ./util install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util'
> make -C O.cygwin-x86 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../.. T_A=cygwin-x86
install
> make[2]: Entering directory
`/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util/O.cygwin-x86'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../O.Common/os.h', needed by
`inc'.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
`/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util/O.cygwin-x86'
> make[1]: *** [install.cygwin-x86] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/epics/base/extensions/src/edm/util'
> make: *** [util.install] Error 2

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