Building synApps on Cygwin

The following components from the Cygwin distribution package are required in order to build synApps for the cygwin-x86_64 architecture:

• base
  • All default components
• devel
  • gcc-core
  • gcc-g++
  • libncurses-devel
  • make
  • readline
• interpreters
  • perl
• libs
  • ncurses
  • sunrpc

To set up the PATH and EPICS_HOST_ARCH environment variables create a script file called /usr/local/bin/setup_epics containing lines like the following:

export PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/path/to/epics/base/bin/cygwin-x86_64"
export EPICS_HOST_ARCH=cygwin-x86_64

The last element in the PATH definition must be the path to the bin/cygwin-x86_64 subdirectory in your local installation of EPICS base. When logging in to the bash shell on cygwin type the command

source setup_epics

to execute that script.