Deploying a DEBUG build IOC

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NOTE: if you are a developer wishing to develop on your desktop with a debug build, the debug version of the Developer server build may be easier to work with. The builds below do not ship .lib or intermediate O.* object directories so if you wish to rebuild with changes after having run the debugger it is a little more time consuming.

DEBUG DLL builds are kept in EPICS_DEBUG_CLEAN_win7_x64 in the usual kits deployment area. If you wish to deploy only a single IOC in debug mode rather than replace the whole installation with the above debug build then:

1. You need to build the dllCopy.bat by running make dllCopy.bat in the ioc boot area.
2. Double-click on the dllCopy.bat file in the iocBoot area of the IOC you want to deploy on kits, this will copy the dependent DLL and .pdb files to the {ioc}/bin/windows-x64-debug directory
3. Backup the {ioc}/bin/windows-x64 directory on the target computer to be tested.
4. Copy the .EXE and all .DLL/.pdb files from the kits/{ioc}/bin/windows-x64-debug directory to the bin/windows-x64 of the target IOC.
5. Also copy the files in kits/EPICS/crtl/windows-x64-debug to the target {ioc}/bin/windows-x64 directory.

When you start the IOC it should now start the debug build you have copied over.

Note: there is also a EPICS_STATIC_DEBUG_CLEAN_win7_x64 build - this would only require copying the single .EXE and .pdb file as all DLLs are bundled into the .EXE in a static build; however static builds have sometimes behaved differently to DLL builds in the past and so the above DLL option is a better test of the eventual mechanism, though trying a static EXE may be enough for diagnostics. The files here will be in a windows-x64-static-debug directory.