[Coco] ack!

[Bill Pierce]

Thank you Lothan, I will give that a try and see if it works for me.
If it does, I will make a page on my site explaining the process as this is one of the most asked questions here other than "how do I make a boot disk?"

Thanks again

Bill Pierce
My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 4:58 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


This is what I'm doing with Windows 7 to build NitrOS-9 using the latest 
Cygwin. You can probably use mingw as well, but I have no information on how 
to setup mingw to get it working properly.

1. Install Cygwin with all the appropriate packages (gcc, make, mercurial, 
etc.).

2. Download Toolshed for Windows 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/files/ToolShed/ToolShed%202.0/toolshed_2.0_windows.zip/download) 

and install it somewhere. After it's installed copy Toolshed\os9.exe to 
\Cygwin\usr\local\bin

3. Download lwtools 4.7 
(http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/releases/lwtools/lwtools-4.7.tar.gz) to your 
Cygwin home directory (e.g. C:\Cygwin\home\<username>

4. Extract lwtools to your home directory in Cygwin
   gunzip lwtools-4.7.tar.gz
   tar xvf lwtools-4.7.tar

5. Build lwtools
   cd lwtools-4.7
   make all
   make install

6. Back in your home directory (cd ..), grab the latest NitrOS-9 code from 
the repository:
    hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9
    hg update lwtools-port

7. Build NitrOS-9
    cd nitros9
    export NITROS9DIR=`pwd`
    make

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Pierce
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 2:11 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


Ok, that's all fine and good for those who have commit access.
Let's say I (no commit access) just wanted to install the tools, download 
the files, and build the repo locally.
Starting from scratch, how would I set this up? This is assuming that 
there's no LWTools installation, or any of the minigw or cygwin. I'm running 
Windows Vista Home Premium.

Step by step, what would have to be done to compile the repo?

The reason I ask this, is there are a lot of people who've asked the same 
question and got "partial" answers. On this list, questions like this 
usually go the way of "well you need he current mingw... No, you must use 
the old one... no it's the new one but with these arguments... Ok but you 
need Linux... But I'm running Windows... but if you get Linux you can.... 
And Linux this.... and Linux that.... " OR "you need toolshed... No toolshed 
is gone, lwtools is in... but I cant build lwtools in windows... in linux 
it's easy... linux this.... linux that..." and the conversation never comes 
back to the question. How do I go from scratch to a NitrOS9 build? I am not 
bad mouthing Linux here, it's a fine system WHEN set up right, BUT I'm not 
ditching 15 years of building a stable windows system that does exactly what 
I want and has no problems to install something I know nothing about and 
cannot use my $10k+ of archived software collected over 15 years just to 
build Nitros9 when I K
NOW it is being done in windows as well.

The bad thing is, I will get more response from the above statement than I 
will the question.
Remember?.... there was a question up there... :-P


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: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 1:40 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


From: Gene Heskett

> I tried to do a test build a day or so back, but my last pull seems to
> have
> disabled mamou for a level3 build.
>
> If anyone has a makefile/rules.mak files that work with lwtools stuff, I
> would appreciate copies.
>
> Or, if anyone knows, is the repo open again so I can do an hg update?
> apparently not, it comes back instantly with no files changed.
>
> Is there some new magic incantation to pull a new 'tip'?

Have you switched to the new repository after SourceForge moved it to the
new SourceForge platform on May 16? If you have commit permission, the new
repository is at ssh://<username>@hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code. The old
repository is still available at
http://nitros9.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/nitros9/nitros9, but it's
read-only.

The reason I ask is because Boisy committed a lot of changes to the
makefiles six days ago.


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