Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:57:24 -0500

On 6/25/12 7:53 AM, Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> Hello Nalaka
> 
> First get EPICS base fixed before you try to do MEDM.
> 
> When compiling base, you got:
> 
>> make[3]: /usr/bin/g++: Command not found
> 
> This looks very bad. Make sure g++ is installed. I was quite
> sure that this is installed on Ubuntu by default, but maybe I am
> wrong. Or it is installed somewhere else? If it installed
> somewhere else, you need to fix the path in the EPICS makefile,
> which is complicated for a beginner.

I don't think build tools come installed by default on Ubuntu.
You need to install the "build-essential" package to get those
tools.

To build EPICS Base with readline support, I think you also need
to install the libreadline-dev package.

BTW, there's an introductory page about compiling software on
Ubuntu at

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

.  If you want to build things beyond EPICS Base, such as MEDM
and synApps, you will likely need to install even more packages.
 My list is for Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, so it's very old, but for it
I needed to install flex, libx11-dev, and libxmu-dev from the
"main" repo, and I needed to install lesstif2 and lesstif2-dev
from the "universe" repo.

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System