Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi tech-talk-team,

 

I'm sorry for my contacting you by an email, but I couldn't find a - understandable - solution for my problem (I'm student and not so familiar yet in programming):

 

My aim is to realize a labCA interface for my Matlab software to use the EPICS base package. The circumstances for me are: I have an 64bit Windows 7 operating system installed.

 

My steps so far:

  I have set up Cygwin64 on my laptop and I've installed the EPICS Base package (I'm not sure if shared libraries are already      included) by these  steps:

              - Install of cygwin with "gcc-g++", "make", "readline", "perl"

              - new folder C:\epics

              - change rights for use of this filder to "All Users"

              - depack baseR3.14.12.4.tar.gz by cygwin:
   
                    tar xvzf /cygdrive/c/YOUR_USER_NAME/Downloads/baseR3.14.12.4.tar.gz -C /cygdrive/c/epics/

                    cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/epics/base-3.14.12.4/

                   make

I included "PATH" by C:\cygwin\bin" and "C:\epics\base-3.14.12.4\bin\cygwin-x86"

 

so far, so good.... (I did all these steps in cygwin 64 bit version.

 

Now I downloaded labca from your homepage and installed it in C:\labca

After the install, I changed the CONFIG and RELEASE-file in the labca\configure-folder:

 

 CONFIG: I added these lines by Windows Editor

                  -  MAKEFOR=MATLAB

                  -  CONFIG_USE_CTRLC=YES

 

and RELEASE:

                  - INSTALL_LOCATION_APP=C:\\labca

 

                  - EPICS_BASE=/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4

 

                  - MATLABDIR = C:\\Program\ Files\ \(x86\)\\MATLAB\\R2013aStudent

                  - EPICS_HOST_ARCH=cygwin-x86

                  - MATLIB_SUBDIR=win32/microsoft

 

After these changes I opened Cygwin again and entered

    $ cd /cygdrive/c/labca/

 

Finally I entered the command 'make' and got 

 

make -C ./configure install
make[1]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/labca/configure'
make -C O.cygwin-x86 -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. T_A=cygwin-x86 install
make[2]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/labca/configure/O.cygwin-x86'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:198: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:212: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:213: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:199: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:283: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:284: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:213: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:287: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:288: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:284: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:350: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:351: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:288: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:355: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:356: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:351: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_JAVA:141: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_JAVA:142: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES.Db:356: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_JAVA:145: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_JAVA:146: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_JAVA:142: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_JAVA:146: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: target 'C' doesn't match the target pattern
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: overriding recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE:66: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'C'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_BUILD:129: *** target pattern contains no '%'.  Schluss.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/labca/configure/O.cygwin-x86'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_ARCHS:63: recipe for target 'install.cygwin-x86' failed
make[1]: *** [install.cygwin-x86] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/labca/configure'
/cygdrive/c/epics/base-3-14-12-4/configure/RULES_DIRS:70: recipe for target 'configure.install' failed
make: *** [configure.install] Error 2

 

I've spent days in looking for a solution, but I could find it and I hope you can give me this answer how to realize the LabCA building.

 

Thank you so much for your support!

 

Best regards,

Nicolas