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Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Thu, 7 May 2015 02:16:20 +0000

Hi Pete,

I looked more closely at your output:

/opt/epics/base/bin/linux-arm/dbToRecordtypeH  -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../dbd -I/opt/epics/base/dbd ../scintscalRecord.dbd
scintscalRecord.h

It is running dbToRecordtypeH, which converts a record definition file (xxxRecord.dbd) to a xxxRecord.h.  Is that what you are trying to do?  Does your application define a new record type, scintscanRecord?  It looks like scintscalRecord.dbd is not a record definition file, because it contains entries for device support.  Can you send scintscalRecord.dbd and your Makefile?

Mark

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From: Siddons, David [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 8:42 PM
To: Mark Rivers; EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: RE: stupid problem

Hi Mark,
  Yes, it's there:

peter@peter-Latitude-E7240:~/zed/root/scint/dbd$ grep device\(ao *
scintscal.dbd:device(ao,CONSTANT,devAoSoft,"Soft Channel")
scintscal.dbd:device(ao,CONSTANT,devAoSoftRaw,"Raw Soft Channel")
scintscal.dbd:device(ao,CONSTANT,devAoSoftCallback,"Async Soft Channel")
scintscal.dbd:device(ao,VME_IO,devAoI2C,"I2C DAC")    <---------
scintscalRecord.dbd:device(ao,VME_IO,devAoI2C,"I2C DAC")

Pete.

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From: Mark Rivers [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 9:38 PM
To: Siddons, David; EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: RE: stupid problem

Hi Pete,

I think that means your dbd file did not actually get incorporated into the dbd file that got loaded into your IOC.  Look at the application dbd file and see if you can find that device(ao...) line in it.

Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of D Peter Siddons [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 8:10 PM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: stupid problem

Forgive me, this is probably very dumb.

I have an IOC which uses a scaler record and a bunch of ao records. THe
scaler record dbd file has this line to register the ao device support:

device(ao,VME_IO,devAoI2C,"I2C DAC")

The support routine devAoI2C exists. I use VME_IO because Epics then
nicely parses out the config parameters. However when I run make, I get
this error:

/opt/epics/base/bin/linux-arm/dbToRecordtypeH  -I. -I.. -I../O.Common
-I../../../dbd -I/opt/epics/base/dbd ../scintscalRecord.dbd
scintscalRecord.h
Record type "ao" not found for device "I2C DAC"

The build stops there, before it compiles anything else. What am I missing?

Pete.

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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