Update installation-windows-env.rst #11
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minor formatting. And adding way to always start msys2 shell with -use-full-path argument.
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| 1. Add the EPICS Base binary directory for your target to be able to call the EPICS command line tools without specifying their fully qualified path. | ||
| 1. Add the EPICS Base binary directory ("\\base-x.x.x\\bin") for your target to be able to call the EPICS command line tools without specifying their fully qualified path. |
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The binary directory should be ...\base-x.x.x\bin\<target-arch>, shouldn't it?
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Yes. I will update.
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| 1. Select ``Advance`` tab, navigate to ``Environment Variables`` button. That should open editable tables of settings for Windows Environment. | |||
| 2. Select ``User Variable for 'user'`` option, press NEW | |||
| 3. Add EPICS BASE path here. In ``Variable Name``, put "EPICS_BASE". For ``Variable Value``, enter the location of your EPICS Base installation, e.g., "C:\\msys64\\home\\'user'\\base-R7.0.4.1" | |||
| 3. Add EPICS BASE path here. In ``Variable Name``, put "EPICS_BASE". For ``Variable Value``, enter the location of your EPICS Base installation, e.g., "c:\\msys64\\home\\ 'user'\\base-R7.0.4.1" | |||
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I know that the drive letter is accepted in lower case, but the "official" notation (as used in system environment variables etc.) is upper case.
A space character in the path before the user name seems wrong.
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Ok. It shall remain Capital.
Problem with this path is that when published on 'readthedocs' '' between "home' and 'user' is not visible. It shows ok in github preview though. Only if I put a space path is shown correct. But then as you said it shows space in the path. Can you try something to make it look correct ?
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Oh, ok.
I will check how this could be done.
| 4. Set the host architecture. In ``Variable Name``, put "EPICS_HOST_ARCH". For ``Variable Value``, put "windows-x64-mingw" or "windows-x64" (depending on your selection of compilers). | ||
| 5. Navigate to the variable called ``Path``. Press Edit. | ||
| 6. If you are using the MinGW compilers and dynamic (DLL) linking, add the path for the MinGW64 DLLs. Press NEW and enter "C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin". Press ok. | ||
| 6. If you are using the MinGW compilers and dynamic (DLL) linking, add the path for the MinGW64 DLLs. Press NEW and enter "c:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin". Press ok. |
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Drive letter case - see above.
| 7. Add the path for the EPICS commands and DLLs. Press NEW and enter ``%EPICS_BASE%\bin\%EPICS_HOST_ARCH%``. Press ok twice and you are done. | ||
| 8. Restart the Machine and check if EPICS commands like ``caget`` and ``camonitor`` are being recognised as valid commands in any location and work. | ||
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| Note that by default the MSYS2 shell does not inherit the parent environment. To change that behavior, you need to start the shell with the argument ``-use-full-path``. | ||
| Note that by default the MSYS2 shell does not inherit the parent environment. To change that behavior, you need to start the shell with the argument ``-use-full-path``. To always start with the argument, replace ``Rem set MSYS2_PATH_TYPE=inherit`` with ``set MSYS2_PATH_TYPE=inherit`` in "c:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd". |
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What about...
To make the MSYS2 shell always inherit the parent environment, uncomment the line rem set MSYS2_PATH_TYPE=inherit in "C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd".
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Looks good. I will update
Ralph's Comments accommodated.
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