Hardware Platforms - Introduction ... (to be included)

Introduction

In contrast to the standard EPICS installations, cross compiler and several other things are needed first.

Generic steps:

• Prerequisites
  • Installation of cross compiler (could be included already in the normal gnu compiler suite)
  • Installation of software development kit (if available)
• then
  • ... either (recommended) using the cross compiler for EPICS build
    • create/modify EPICS target and host specific CONFIG/CONFIG_SITE files
    • built target specific executables, libraries and applications
  • ... or compile on target system specific OS
    • Download of all sources (LINUX kernel and driver)
    • Compilation of the kernel plus tools (busybox for example)
    • transfer to the target hardware
    • Compilation of EPICS inside the development package
• Finally
  • (Transfer to the target hardware)
  • Test the IOC on the target machine.

How-to's by EPICS wiki

Have a look at the How-Tos at the epics wiki, especially at:
• How To Port EPICS to a new OS/Architecture
• How to make your EPICS driver operating system independent
-- PeterZumbruch - 10 Nov 2011
... more see Project Page

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