[Coco] ack!

[Bill Pierce]

Lothan,
So far all has gone well up to step 6 with the exception of a ton of "warnings" in the lwtools build. No errors though. I may have missed a support file as that part wasn't explained thoroughly. i.e. step 1 "etc..." When one knows NOTHING of the system, "etc.." is absolutely useless. A full list is needed as to what needs to be included. The Cygwin installation was painless, but not knowing "what" to include as "etc." isn't a Cygwin option. It's these kind of instructions that killed OS-9 for newbies in the 80s and 90s. I'm not saying you were not helpful or that I'm the average unknowledgable user, but when details matter, they should be included. I just downloaded the defaults as I didn't know what else to include. I already had Mercurial installed on my system from a previous attempt at creating my own repository for something else. I assumed it would work and it did. I don't know if I missed anything else.

Here's what I get in step 6.

This works fine:
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9

This gives an error:
hg update lwtools-port
"abort: no repository found in 'c:/cygwin/home/username' (.hg not found)"

So what am I doing wrong here?

Bill Pierce
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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 6:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


Oh... under the NitrOS-9 build step at the end, you might change from make 
to make all. I think make does a make all by default, but just in case...

If you want to create the disks images, you'll also need to run make dsk 
right after make all.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Pierce
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 5:26 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


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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Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
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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 all
    make dsk

-----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


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