Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Vigder, Mark" <[email protected]> · Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:27:50 -0400

Keith

We've put together a shell script (attached) that builds EPICS from scratch. It downloads,
untars, configures and builds the specified versions of BASE, ASYN, CALC, MOTOR,
SEQ, and STREAMDEVICE. I edited it a bit before posting, so hopefully I didn't mess it up.
It also includes a cross compile for the RaspberryPi, but does not set up the cross compiler.
We do that (manually) using crosstool-ng. It's easy to remove the cross compile stuff
from the script. I've run the script on Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04.

It does need to be cleaned up a bit, e.g.,:
-Errors aren't handled all that gracefully.
-The cross compile for raspberrypi is only done on a linux-x86_64 host.  If you are going to do a
 cross compile, this should be done for a Common host.
-The cross compile should be done with static linking. (I thought that was in the script?
 What happened to it??)

Mark

Mark Vigder
Control System Architect
Canadian Neutron Beam Centre

> Hello,
> 
> This is my first post.
> 
> I would appreciate any guidance in locating/writing a
> procedure/script to install EPICS-R3.14.12 specifically on an
> x86 PC with a freshly installed Ubuntu-12.04-LTS operating system.
> 
> The documentation I have located so far is very good but very general
> and assumes the reader is an experienced professional,
> working in a national laboratory.
> 
> I would like to locate/write (with some guidance) a
> procedure/script to install EPICS-R3.14.12 specifically on an
> x86 PC with a freshly installed Ubuntu-12.04-LTS operating system;
> targeted at students, from post-graduate to elementary levels.
> What would our lives have been like if we had
> access to such a thing when we were 10 years old?
> 
> I am interested in the application of
> EPICS-R3.14.12 as a backbone of the Built Environment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith Parker

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System