Working with Support Modules

Warning

This tutorial is an early draft and is not yet complete.

This is a type 3. change from the list at Types of Changes.

In the tutorial on Create a Generic IOC, we created a new Generic IOC container image that wrapped the existing support module lakeshore340.

If you wanted to create a completely new support module then you would use a very similar workflow to the above.

In brief, the steps are:

• Create a new Generic IOC project using the epics-containers/ioc-template

• Create a new folder in /workspaces/YOUR_SUPPORT_MODULE_NAME

• Link the new folder to the epics support folders:

  • ln -s /workspaces/YOUR_SUPPORT_MODULE_NAME /epics/support/YOUR_SUPPORT_MODULE_NAME

  • TODO the ibek command ibek dev support YOUR_SUPPORT_MODULE_NAME will do this in future

• Now work on your support module and get it compiling

• Then add ibek-support for the new module as per Create a Generic IOC

• create an example instance in the Generic IOC project to test your work

• When ready, push your new support and new ioc-support projects.