[Coco] lwtools on Windows

[Bill Pierce]

Wayne... the Leap Year un-birthday is also Feburary Free Beer Day... so it makes it hard to remember anything :-)

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 10:06 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] lwtools on Windows


On Sep 15, 2013 9:43 AM, "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mark,
> I guess I missed the link to the 64 bit mingw. It wasn't listed on the
page linked in the wiki. They are all 32 bit builds (I think). I just
didn't look any further. Now that I know I can get a 64 bit version, I may
try that with the 64 bit mercurial and see how it works. I know I saw
someone post that using 64 bit to build NOS9 was a lot faster. I know the
32 bit version is sloooow. Especially on a 64 bit system.
>
> BTW... It's my 19,377th Un-Birthday !!!
> You have only one "Birthday" per year... but you have 364 "Un-Birthdays"
per year !!
> So a Very Merry Un-Birthday... to ME!! <popping a top on an ice cold
Un-Birthday Bud Ice>

Don't forget that leap un-birthday every fourth year, or those who have
1,460 un-birthdays for every birthday (February 29th).

Wayne

> Bill Pierce
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 8:56 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] lwtools on Windows
>
>
> Mingw 64-bit is available; not sure why you think it isn't!?!
>
>
>
> Sent from my ASUS Pad
>
> Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >William,
> >I just did a fresh install of mingw, toolshed & lwtools recently. It all
builds
> and NitrOS9 builds. I haven't tested ALL disks, but the ones I did test,
tested
> positive.
> >
> >My advice to anyone trying this in Windows is to follow the link from the
> Nitros9.org site to the "Building Nitros9 in Windows" link and follow the
> instructions there as they are now correct.
> >One note about installing mingw & mercurial for Windows, the directions
on the
> NOS9 site say to use 32 or 64 bit mercurial, which ever is right for your
> machine. I tried 64 bit as my machine & OS is 64 bit and it did nothing
but
> error on all builds. I switched to the 32 bit build and the errors went
away. I
> think it has to do with mingw only being available for 32 bit and they're
> clashing. This may prove different on different machines.
> >
> >Other than that, it now builds properly with only a couple of errors
which are
> not mingw, mercurial, toolshed or lwtools related, just incorrect
makefiles on
> obscure folders.
> >
> >Bill Pierce
> >My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> >https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> >Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> >http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> >Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> >http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> >E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
> >To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 2:19 am
> >Subject: Re: [Coco] lwtools on Windows
> >
> >
> >On 2013-09-14 23:56, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> But your use of what I have, which is now about 3 months old, for
lwtools
> >> in particular, will need an assembler or compiler that runs on windows.
> >> Since M$hit doesn't think the user has any business building his own, I
> >> have no clue what choices you have to successfully build it on windows.
> >> The 00README.txt file does not mention windows, and a quick inspection
of
> >> the Makefile indicates its written in more or less pure *nix language.
> >>
> >> Perhaps MinGW can build it?
> >
> >For the record, the official distribution point for lwtools is
> >http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/.
> >
> >lwtools is known to build under mingw and I have reports of it working
> >under cygwin. However, I don't officially support Windows so building
> >under mingw and cygwin do not get tested regularly. Since I don't have a
> >Windows system to build on, I don't provide Windows binaries either. I
> >used to build binaries with a cross-compiler (mingw as it happens) but
> >that proved to be a lot less stable than one would hope.
> >
> >If someone wants to apply to be the official "lwtools on windows" guy
> >and make sure it builds and/or provide windows binaries, ping me off
> >list and we can discuss it.
> >
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