Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I think you are confusing 2 things:

 

-          Using gnumake from MinGW, but using the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler and linker.  EPICS_HOST_ARCH=windows-x64 uses the Microsoft compiler and linker.

-          Using the mingw (GNU) compiler and linker.  EPICS_HOST_ARCH=windows-x64-mingw uses the GNU compiler and linker.

 

If you want to use the Microsoft compiler then you need to make sure that the minGW linker does not come first in your PATH, which seems like what is happening.  You can probably change your PATH definition so the Microsoft compiler tools come before the minGW tools.

 

Mark

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Max Power
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 2:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: link: invalid option -- n.....make[2]: *** [install.windows-x64] Error 2

 

Dear guys,

 

I have tried to install EPICS base 3.15.4 in windows 8.1 64 bits using MinGW tools, following instructions in EPICS.org: http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/win32.php and Mark River explanation. 

 

I have used the last version of Visual studio 2015 and all the building tools required.

 

After "make" command execution, everything looked going on perfect until the point the installation has used the "link" command (see below). It says that "link" command does not understand -n option. I have checked that the link.exe command installed with VC2015 has the possibility of using that argument, but the link command from MinGW GNU tools cannot. Any idea or someone with the same problem?

 

Thank you very much in advance!, console outputs coming below

 

....

link -nologo  -LTCG -incremental:no -opt:ref -release -version:3.15 /MACHINE:X64

              -out:antelope.exe       epicsTempFile.obj closure.obj error.obj la

lr.obj lr0.obj antelope.obj mkpar.obj output.obj reader.obj skeleton.obj symtab.

obj verbose.obj warshall.obj

link: invalid option -- n

Try `link --help' for more information.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/Max/AppData/Roaming/SPB_Data/epics/base/s

rc/libCom/O.windows-x64'

make[2]: *** [install.windows-x64] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/Max/AppData/Roaming/SPB_Data/epics/base/src/libCom'

make[1]: *** [libCom.install] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/Max/AppData/Roaming/SPB_Data/epics/base/s

rc'

make: *** [src.install] Error 2

 

 

link version that the make uses:

 

$ link

link: missing operand

Try `link --help' for more information.

 

$ link --version

link (GNU coreutils) 5.97

Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of

the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 

Written by Michael Stone.

 

$ link --help

Usage: link FILE1 FILE2

  or:  link OPTION

Call the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FILE1.

 

      --help     display this help and exit

      --version  output version information and exit

 

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.