EPICS: EDM compilation and configuration

MCC EDM configuration

By Anthony Cuffe

MCC EDM screens are accessible via command

ssh hlbl00 opsmenu

Here we should use:

EOS Menu -> EDM(OPS)

EDM configuration on this server is located under /cs/opshome/edm

Links

Web page: http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/

Download: http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/log/getLatest.php

User Guide: http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/edmUserManual/index.html

MCC EDM screens: http://opweb.acc.jlab.org/internal/edm/

MCC RSYNC URI of EDM configurations:

Directory Configuration

Downloaded the EDM version 1-12-37 and unpacked into $EPICS_EXTENSIONS/src The default directory containing EDM is edm, which is soft link to version directory.

nerses@clon01:src> ls -ld $EPICS_EXTENSIONS/src/edm*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 epics    clas          11 Oct  5 12:42 /usr/local/clas/devel/R3.14.8.2/extensions/src/edm -> edm-1-12-37/
drwxrwxr-x  27 nerses   clas        4096 Oct  5 02:17 /usr/local/clas/devel/R3.14.8.2/extensions/src/edm-1-11-1v/
-rw-rw----   1 nerses   clas     2631404 Dec  4  2008 /usr/local/clas/devel/R3.14.8.2/extensions/src/edm-1-11-1v.tgz
drwxrwxr-x  29 nerses   clas        4096 Oct  5 15:25 /usr/local/clas/devel/R3.14.8.2/extensions/src/edm-1-12-37/
-rw-rw-r--   1 nerses   clas     2701933 Jul  1  2009 /usr/local/clas/devel/R3.14.8.2/extensions/src/edm-1-12-37.tar.gz

Compilation

NOTE: Compilation on linux runs without a problem. But, on both solaris-x86 and solaris-sparc modifications should be done.

Required packages for solaris

libgif

download from sourcefourge.net

libungif

available at /opt/sfw/{include,lib}

libcurl

available at /opt/sfw/{include,lib}

Summary of modifications

1. Under Solaris __STDC__ have to be defined in order to use the correct calls to regex functions.
   1. To have network capability of EDM one should change to USE_CURL=YES in lib/Makefile and add libcurl in the list of libraries to be linked.
   2. And since libcurl is in /opt/sfw/lib directory, that directory should be added into list of the lookup directories.
   3. Also the /opt/sfw/include should be added into list of include directories.
2. In some of the EDM subdirectories the libCom and libca from $EPICS_BASE/lib/$EPICS_HOST_ARCH should be added.
3. In the giflib/Makefile the loopkup directory for libraries of /opt/sfw/lib should be added for libungif
4. pvFactory/textupdate.cc has a call to the int finite(double dsrc); function which under solaris requires inclusion of ieeefp.h as opposite to linux which requires math.h and included from other header files. To overcome the predefined macro __SUNPRO_CC was used to identify Sun's compiler.
5. For slaclib compilation the shared libraries X11 Xt 114135a4-6f6c-11d3-95bc-00104b8742df cfcaa62e-8199-11d3-a77f-00104b8742df should be added.

NOTE: The detailed summary of changes is in the #Essential diff of original and modified sources

Configuration

Environment and run configuration

• An edm startup tcsh script $EPICS_SCRIPTS/edm script was created based on edm/setup.sh
  • It supports generation of architecture depended configuration files in respective subdirectories under edm/setup. The directories edm/setup{linux-x86,solaris-x86,solaris-sparc} are actual configuration directories for respective compiled edm flavours.
  • colors.list, fonts.list and calc.list are in the edm/setup directory and links are created from architecture depended directories to them.
• In the clas_epics.adl the command to run edm is:

/bin/tcsh -f $EPICS_SCRIPTS/edm -x monticello.edl

Odd things noticed while was trying to run from medm:

1. It is strange but medm calls scripts with same environment but differently.
2. tcsh instead of csh is must. At least under solaris, otherwise will not work.

Colour configuration

• The colour configuration used by MCC is backward compatible with MEDM and is different from default more sensible EDM colour configuration.

To have a normal contrast colours we are using colors.list from MCC MCC is changing this file from time to time. Usually, by adding a new colour rules. This restricts us from migrating to EDM, because we will have to have different colour configurations for MCC and Hall-B screens.

To synchronize colour configuration file from MCC server we should use ssh or rsync.

Essential diff of original and modified sources

diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/baselib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/baselib/Makefile
11c11
<    USR_CXXFLAGS_solaris += -D__solaris__ -DSINGLE_THREADED=1 -D__epics__=1 -D__STDC__
---
>    USR_CXXFLAGS_solaris += -D__solaris__ -DSINGLE_THREADED=1 -D__epics__=1
27,29d26
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/calcPv/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/calcPv/Makefile
31,33d30
<    USR_LIBS_solaris += Com
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/choiceButton/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/choiceButton/Makefile
24,26d23
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/diamondlib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/diamondlib/Makefile
28,30d27
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/edmMain/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/edmMain/Makefile
28,30d27
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/epicsPv/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/epicsPv/Makefile
31,33c31
<    USR_LIBS_solaris += ca Com
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
---
>    USR_LIBS += ca Com
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/giflib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/giflib/Makefile
42c42
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L$(GIF_LIB) -L/opt/sfw/lib
---
>    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L$(GIF_LIB)
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/indicator/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/indicator/Makefile
24,26d23
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/lib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/lib/Makefile
7,8c7
<   #USE_CURL=NO
<   USE_CURL=YES
---
>   USE_CURL=NO
38,39d36
<  USR_INCLUDES_solaris += -I/opt/sfw/include
<  USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/locPv/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/locPv/Makefile
23,24d22
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/logPv/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/logPv/Makefile
31,34d30
<    USR_LIBS_solaris += Com ca
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/multiSegRampButton/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/multiSegRampButton/Makefile
24,26d23
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/pnglib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/pnglib/Makefile
36,38d35
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/pvFactory/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/pvFactory/Makefile
14c14
<    USR_CXXFLAGS_solaris += -DSINGLE_THREADED=1 -D__epics__=1 -D__STDC__
---
>    USR_CXXFLAGS_solaris += -DSINGLE_THREADED=1 -D__epics__=1
22,24d21
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/pvFactory/textupdate.cc edm-1-12-37.orig/pvFactory/textupdate.cc
10,13d9
< #ifdef __SUNPRO_CC
< #include <ieeefp.h>
< #endif
<
Only in edm-1-12-37/setup: colors.list.orig
Only in edm-1-12-37/setup: setup.csh
Only in edm-1-12-37/setup: linux-x86
Only in edm-1-12-37/setup: solaris-sparc
Only in edm-1-12-37/setup: solaris-x86
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/slaclib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/slaclib/Makefile
24,28d23
<    ifneq ($(findstring solaris,$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH)),)
<  LDLIBS += -lX11 -lXt
<  LDLIBS += -l114135a4-6f6c-11d3-95bc-00104b8742df
<  LDLIBS += -lcfcaa62e-8199-11d3-a77f-00104b8742df
<    endif
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/triumflib/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/triumflib/Makefile
28,30d27
<    USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<    USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<
diff -r -bB edm-1-12-37/videowidget/Makefile edm-1-12-37.orig/videowidget/Makefile
29,31d28
<   USR_SYS_LIBS_solaris += curl
<   USR_LDFLAGS_solaris += -L/opt/sfw/lib
<

adl2edl

The adl2edl is downloaded from the same place as edm.

Installed under $EPICS_EXTENSIONS/src

By default adl2edl didn't have a architecture depended build. I've modified it, now it supports current EPICS build rules.

EDM was configured via

setenv EDMFILTERS $EDM/setup/$EPICS_HOST_ARCH

edmFilters files are linked to $EDM/setup/edmFilters and contains line for converting adl files of MEDM

.adl adl2edl %f

Conversion of Hall-B MEDM screens to EDM ones

Here are 2 options:

1. Convert once all medm screens and start using edm only.
2. Use edmFilters feature to convert adl files on-the-fly.