Python-CA installation memo¶
KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Acceleator Lab Noboru Yamamoto
This program is retistered in PyPI.
you need to setup EPICSROOT environment varible before install this program using pip command. You may need other environment variables, such as WITH_TK, TKINC, TKLIB, HOSTARCH.
You can create create EPICS_config_local.py files to setup these environment. Put this file in somewhere in your PYTHONPATH.
You need Python 2.7 or later and EPICS 3.14.7 or later. (It may work with older version, but these are oldest versions I have built.)
Get a Python-CA extension module package as a tarball here[updated on 2007/05/03].
Expand this tarball at your working directory.
Open setup.py in your favourite editor and change some parametes, such as EPICS architechture and installation path, appropriately.
EPICSROOT=os.path.join("your epics root path")
EPICSBASE=os.path.join(EPICSROOT,"base")
EPICSEXT=os.path.join(EPICSROOT,"extensions")
HOSTARCH="your epics host architecture"
run the installation script, setup.py/ for build extension moules.
python setup.py build
if you encounter the compilation errors or any trouble , please send a message to noboru.yamamoto_at_kek.jp.
- You need to have write permission of the target directories for installation. Run:
python setup.py install
Test extension module.
start python interpreter.
python
Try to import ca module
import ca
Check access to EPICS DB. (Assuming excas is running.)
ca.Get("fred")