Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:46:05 -0500

On 9/16/15 2:45 PM, Mark S. Engbretson wrote:
> You know - this sort of issue happens all the time on windows builds
> for EPICS, synapps, and area detector and I am always amazed that
> there isn't a location where people have specifically stated the exact
> version of what and where they obtained EVERYTHING, and that it is
> *known* to work.

Hi, Mark.

Andrew has such a web page for EPICS Base at:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/win32.php

> I've never understood the point of making everyone build everything
> from first principles when the target your going for is always moving
> or isn't all based upon the "official" stable distro's. I'd much
> rather have my entire development environment be identical to everyone
> else's; so people can focus their time and effort on doing <whatever>,
> not trying to figure out why their stuff doesn't build.

I'm not sure what you're wishing for here.  Are you wishing for binaries
of EPICS Base, synApps, areaDetector, etc.?  So you would ideally
install those binaries and then compile your own software that depends
on them?

Regards,

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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