Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> · Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:16:14 +0100

With GNU make for windows
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm it works using paths
like C:/epics/base-3.14.12. It's only cygwin make that is not usable.
Dirk
Andrew Johnson wrote:

Hi Dirk,
On Monday 15 November 2010 04:00:07 Dirk Zimoch wrote:

I tried to follow the example in configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.win32-x86.Common:
INSTALL_LOCATION = C:/epics/base-3.14.12
This does not work because make reads lines starting with C: as rules
for building the file C. Using \\ instead of / also does not help.
So I tried
INSTALL_LOCATION = /cygdrive/c/epics/base-3.14.12
Now the microsoft compiler fails because it cannot read the cygdrive
path and thus cannot find the header directories. Here the problem is
that the PATH_FILTER only replaces / with \\ but not /cygcdrive/c with c:

We don't support the use of Cygwin tools to build Base on the win32-x86,
win32-x86-mingw and windows-x64 targets; you need versions of Make and Perl
that understand the windows paths for those targets. If you mix the two you
just end up with the kinds of problems that you describe above, which neither
Janet nor I have the time or inclination to try and fix right now.
When building for the Windows API (using either the MSVC++ or MinGW compilers)
I use the MinGW version of GNUMake and a Perl from ActiveState, although there
may be alternatives to them. When building for Cygwin I use the versions of
Make and Perl that come with Cygwin. Note that R3.14.12 will support building
shared libraries on Cygwin 1.7 (using gcc-3, not gcc-4), although that still
doesn't work on Cygwin 1.5.
- Andrew

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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