Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Thanks for the help everyone. It turns out Janet was correct. My problem was caused by EPICS base bug #626848, and making the change that was suggested below allowed me to successfully build.

If you are using GNU make 3.82, it look like your problem may be from EPICS base bug #626848.

Try making the following change to your configure/RULES_BUILD file.

Index: RULES_BUILD
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/epicsmgr/cvsroot/epics/base/configure/RULES_BUILD,v
retrieving revision 1.88.2.25
diff -r1.88.2.25 RULES_BUILD
369c369
< $(INSTALL_SHRLIB)/lib%: lib%
---
> $(INSTALL_SHRLIBS): $(INSTALL_SHRLIB)/lib%: lib%


Morgan Bradford wrote:

I am trying to install EPICS base-3.14.9 on a windows 7 computer, and keep getting the following error:

Installing shared library ../../../lib/win32-x86-mingw/libCom.a

mkdir ../../../lib

mkdir ../../../lib/win32-x86-mingw

ln -s libCom.a ../../../lib/win32-x86-mingw/libCom.a

ln: creating symbolic link `../../../lib/win32-x86-mingw/libCom.a' to `libCom.a'

: No such file or directory

mingw32-make[3]: *** [../../../lib/win32-x86-mingw/libCom.a] Error 1

mingw32-make[3]: Leaving directory `c:/epics/base-3.14.9/src/libCom/O.win32-x86-

mingw'

mingw32-make[2]: *** [install.win32-x86-mingw] Error 2

mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory `c:/epics/base-3.14.9/src/libCom'

mingw32-make[1]: *** [libCom.install] Error 2

mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/epics/base-3.14.9/src'

mingw32-make: *** [src.install] Error 2

What I did was:

Downloaded baseR3.14.9

Installed the latest version of Perl (strawberry)

Installed the latest version of MinGW

Set CONFIG_SITE.win32-x86-mingw.Common:  PERL=c:/strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe

cd c:\epics\base-3.14.9

set EPICS_HOST_ARCH=win32-x86-mingw

mingw32-make

Any ideas on how to get past this error?

Thanks,

Morgan