Experimental Physics and
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"Poff, Mark A" <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:53:06 +0000

Andrew,

Thanks for the information, and I did not fully appreciate that Base 3.15.0.1 was not intended as a production release.  I installed base 3.14.12.3, extracted MEDM into the recommended build tree, and this time did not have the "too many open files" issue.  (Note that I also realized that I had not previously set the X11 and MOTIF variables in CONFIG_SITE.cygwin-x86.cygwin-x86 correctly, so that may have been an issue as well.)

I eventually got a successful build, but now when I try to start MEDM it complains that it can't find some of the runtime (dll) libraries.  I'm going to work this issue for a while, if I get hopelessly stuck I'll submit another post.

Thanks again,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 2:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Poff, Mark A
Subject: Re: MEDM won't compile in Cygwin: "Too many open files"

Hi Mark,

On 2013-03-06 Poff, Mark A wrote:
> Successfully compiled EPICS R3.15.0.1  in Cygwin (Windows 7 platform) 
> , but

Base 3.15.0.1 is not intended as a production release, although I'm not aware of any changes to the CA client library code which would affect MEDM or the other extensions.

Have you already tried building MEDM using the 3.14.12.x stable branch of Base?  Did you extract the MEDM source into a proper 3.14 extensions build tree?  There is a brief description of how to do this and a link to the extensions/configure tar-file at
    http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/extensions/configure/index.php

- Andrew
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