[Coco] Build NitrOS9 on Windows, step by step

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Jan 21, 2015 3:32 AM, "Tormod Volden" <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Bill Nobel wrote:
> > Yes Aaron, thanks for the update followed the instructions and got a
full compile on Nitros9 in mingw32 (took an hour on a quad core 2.3ghz).
>
> On such hardware the whole build would take 5-6 minutes on Linux... I
> wonder how a virtual machine would perform.
>

It is bizarrely slow.  Not a big deal in most cases since rebuilding just
one platform is still only a minute, but strange no doubt.

I prefer this method to cygwin because it builds all the Toolshed utils and
LWTools as standard win32 executables.  This makes using them with other
Windows processes easy.  If you have no use for these tools outside of
building Nitros9, cygwin might make more sense.

Performance on a linux virtual machine is as expected (much faster).  It is
another option if you dont want windows native lwtools and toolshed.
Complexity and overhead are probably higher than simply building nitros9
deserves alone, but a Linux VM is a handy thing to have for many reasons.