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Subject: RE: whether abvisable to use win32 to host EPICS development
From: "Mark Rivers" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:49:13 -0600

I think you can think about each of these 3 parts of this separately:

 

1) Cross compiler host system

2) OPI (e.g. edm, medm, etc.) host

3) Boot server host

 

You really need to run win32 on 1), the cross-compiler.  I assume that works OK, since you say it is supported.

 

You can use win32 as the OPI if you are using medm, but not if you are using edm, it does not support win32.  But this is not a problem, you can always run your OPIs on Linux or other systems, even if you use win32 to cross-compile.

 

To boot from win32 you would need to get an ftp, tfpt or rsh system running on win32.  But again, this is not necessary.  You could use win32 as your cross-compiler, but build from a Linux file system with Samba.  That is what I do.  Then you can boot the vxWorks system from Linux, not from Windows.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ??
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: whether abvisable to use win32 to host EPICS development

 

Hello all,

My task is to port a LLRF system to EPICS, I use vxWorks5.5.1 and EPICS-3.14.8.2, but the CPU board has not been finally determined, probably CPCI6200 or CPCI6190.

A recommended CPU board is CPCI6200 with high performance and a MPC8572 dual core processor, which the crossgcc2.9.6 from SNS does not support. So I think I can use win32 as EPICS development environment, OPI and server(such as ftp and tftp), tornado2.2.1(supports MPC8572) on win32 as the cross compiler.

But I am not sure whether it is an advisable choice, since I have no experience of developing EPICS application on win32, I don't know whether win32 is suitable as EPICS host, and what problem may occur frequently.

I need advice.

 

Thanks

Lin Wang   

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