development.md

Development

Prerequisits

Windows

• Install the Microsoft C++ Build Tools

• Install Chocolatey

• Install Make, CMake and Perl

  choco install make cmake strawberryperl

• Launch the "Developer Command Prompt for VS", not PowerShell, and run the subsequent commands from it

• Activate the 64-bit environment

Linux

• Install Make, CMake, Perl and libevent using your distribution's package manager

  sudo apt install make cmake perl libevent-dev

NI Linux RT

• Install build dependencies

  opkg install
    git \
    packagegroup-core-buildessential \
    perl-modules \
    libevent-dev \
    cmake

Building dependencies

Windows

• Build EPICS Base

  set EPICS_HOST_ARCH=windows-x64-static
  make -C epics-base

• Build PVXS

  echo EPICS_BASE = $(TOP)/../epics-base > pvxs/configure/RELEASE.local
  make -C pvxs/bundle libevent
  make -C pvxs

  See the PVXS docs for more details

Linux and NI Linux RT

• Build EPICS Base

  make -C epics-base

• Build PVXS

  cat <<EOF > pvxs/configure/RELEASE.local
  EPICS_BASE = \$(TOP)/../epics-base
  EOF
  make -C pvxs

Building this library

• Windows

  cmake --preset=windows-x64
  cmake --build --preset=windows-x64

• Linux

  cmake --preset=linux-x86_64
  cmake --build --preset=linux-x86_64

Packaging NI Linux RT Package

These command must be run on an NI Linux RT target

cmake --preset=nilrt
cmake --build --preset=nilrt
cpack --preset=nilrt