epicsQt
Building EPICS, the QE framework, and qegui on windows 10, Qt 5.9
Environment
EPICS configuration and build
Qt 5.9 Configuration
EPICS Qt
Environment
- Microsoft ‘Surface’ running Windows 10 Pro
- 64 bit Operating System x64-based processor
EPICS configuration and build
- Set EPICS_HOST_ARCH=windows-x64
- Set EPICS_BASE=C:\epics\base
- EPICS 3.15.5 source copied to C:\epics
- Installed strawberry perl 5.26.1 to C:\stawberry
- Installed Visual Studio 2017
- Installed mingw-w64 7.1.0 (to get make) - Note, mingw32-make.exe copied to make.exe
Additions to PATH to build EPICS
- C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin
(jom.exe - could not be used as it does not understand ‘make’ ‘wildcard’) - C:\Strawberry\c\bin
(a lot of gcc stuff, but not make. Is this required?) - C:\Strawberry\perl\bin
(perl.exe) - C:\Program Files (x86)\mingw-w64\i686-7.1.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v5-rev0\mingw32\bin
(for gcc make - last to avoid picking up other gcc stuff in preference to msvc)
Commands to build EPICS
- cd C:\epics\base
- “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat” x86_amd64
Qt 5.9 Configuration
The following was installed for building EPICSQt in QtCreator:
- Qt 5.9 development environment
- Windows SDK 10.1.0.0 (provides debugger for QtCreator)
- CMake 3.9.0 (not required?)
Qt 5.9 installed with the following kits:
- Desktop Qt 5.9.0 MSVC2017 64bit
This kit required manual selection of:
- Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 15.0 (amd64) for both C and C++
- Widows SDK 10 cdb x64 (after first installation SDK)
- CMake (after first installing CMake)
Still complained CMake “Configuration has no path to a C and C++ compiler set, even though the kit has a valid tool chain”, but worked OK.
- Desktop Qt 5.9.0 MinGW 32bit
This kit had no errors. - Qt 5.9.0 for UWP 32bit (MSVC 2017)
This kit also complained of no compilers. Selected Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 15.0 (x86) for both C and C++ - Qt 5.9.0 for UWP 64bit (MSVC 2017)
This kit also complained of no compilers. Selected Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 15.0 (amd64) for both C and C++ - Qt 5.9.0 for UWP armv7 (MSVC 2017)
This kit also complained of no compilers. No arm compiler to select.
Qt 5.9 further configuration
Build and Run - Debuggers - Add (following install of Windows SDK):
- Name: Widows SDK 10 cdb x64
- Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\x64\cdb.exe
- Type: CDB
- ABIs: x86-windows-msvc2017-pe-64bit
- Version: 10.0.15063.400
Version control - Git (following installation of Git Desktop app):
- Prepend to PATH: C:\ProgramData\user\GitHubDesktop\app-0.5.9\resources\app\git\mingw64\bin
EPICS Qt
Prerequisites for EPICS Qt:
- QWT 6.1.3
Source copied to C:\qwt-6.1.3
Project built by QtCreator - FFMPEG
3.3.1 ‘dev’ and ‘shared’ 64 bit binary downloaded and both copied to C:\ffmpeg
(Note there are some common files to each) - C:\epicsqtTarget directory created
Additions to PATH to either use Qt Creator or run qegui:
- C:\Program Files\CMake\bin<br> CMake
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit<br> Microsoft debugger
- C:\epicsqtTarget\bin\windows-x64
qegui.exe - C:\epicsqtTarget\lib\windows-x64
qeplugin.dll - C:\ffmpeg\bin
ffmpeg - C:\epics\base\bin\windows-x64
ca.dll, com.dll - C:\qwt-6.1.3\lib
qwt libraries - C:\Qt\5.9\msvc2017_64\bin
- C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin