[Coco] LWTools & Nitros9 Build

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron, if you do update the wiki, please include "specific" instructions on setting up a 64-bit environment.
Everytime I've tried, something is missing and the system fails.
And please list (step-by-step) of what packages to install (saying "install mingw" doesn't get it).
Also, the "new" MinGW setup is different and I can't for the life of me, find the shortcut for the term console that setup claims it put on my desktop, nor can I find the actual application for the term window in the whole MinGW folder. I've seen several complaints on this fact in the MinGW forums.
I have been reverting back to an older 32-bit release of MinGW and 32-bit Mercurial but according to my latest install of this system (this week), even that is failing. I get errors in the Nitros9 build process that was working with the same mingw & mercurial versions 3 months ago.
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 19, 2015 6:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] LWTools & Nitros9 Build


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Bill Nobel wrote:
>> Well Tormond, I am ending up abandoning Windows for building Nitros9.  I 
ended up moving the folders to my Raspberry Pi and have a much easier time 
building. (still need to figure out where to put lwtools after compile) I am 
still figuring this out, but getting there.
>
> Yes, building it on Windows is a pain compared to on Linux or Mac.
> Linux is made for making, Windows is made for buying applications.
>
> I would recommend Windows users to install Linux in a virtual machine
> if they know how to use one. Building NitrOS-9 will probably go 20-30
> times faster too, since MinGW->posix->NT is extremely slow on certain
> things.
>

I setup a windows build environment for NitrOS9 using mingw/msys
today, things have changed a bit since the instructions on the wiki
were written.  I'll try to update them.  It still works fine (though a
bit slowly :) once setup.

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