[Coco] make dskcopy not working

[Bob Devries]

I sympathise with your point of view.

I'll dust off my Raspberry Pi, and see how I go with that.

Thanks for your attempts anyway.

Regards, Bob Devries

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tormod Volden" <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] make dskcopy not working


>I have spent hours now try to get things to work on Windows. It is a
> PITA. I am using MingW because it is relative compact, and Cygwin is a
> huge thing I don't want on this Windows computer I am using. lwtools
> won't build, but that's no big problem since binaries are on the
> lwtools home page (they were cross-built using MingW on Linux).
> Toolshed builds fine (just need to append CC=gcc to the make command!)
> Basically I have nitros9 building now, after substituting /bin/echo
> for echo in rules.mak, go figure. But it builds 10 times slower than
> on Linux on a 7 years older computer. I feel I am wasting my time.
> 
> I don't understand how anyone interested in tinkering with computers
> is *not* using Linux. If you like OS-9, you'll love Linux!
> 
> Seriously, a Linux computer (Raspbery Pi, $35), a Linux partition or
> at least a virtual machine with a minimal installation of Linux would
> save you from so much hassle.
> 
> I am considering to stop caring about building this on Windows. If
> somebody wants to maintain a working Windows build, that's fine, and I
> can help to make sure any changes are integrated properly so that the
> Linux build does not suffer. I believe MacOSX is pretty close to Linux
> in this respect, so supporting it (if anyone uses it) should be easy.
> 
> Tormod
> 
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