PCAS - Portable Channel Access Server

EPICS Portable Channel Access Server and Generic Data Descriptor C++ libraries, split off from EPICS Base 3.16.1 as a separate module for EPICS 7.

The repository keeps the complete history of the code, i.e. it is a clone of the EPICS Base repository, which explains its size.

Building

This is a standard EPICS module. Create a file RELEASE.local (either inside the configure directory or one directory level above the module's root) that sets EPICS_BASE to where your EPICS installation is located.

Note: This module is intended to be compiled against EPICS 7. To build the module against an existing older Base < 3.17, you have to manually export the CA client library header file net_convert.h:

cp <EPICS_BASE>/src/ca/client/net_convert.h <EPICS_BASE>/include/

CI and Static Code Analysis

Continuous Integration services are provided by / running on GitHub Actions. PCAS uses the ci-scripts module.

Static Code Analysis provided by Codacy.

References

Additional information and documentation:

• Base 3.16.1 home page
• CA 4.13.1 Reference Manual