[Coco] lwtools on Windows

[Bill Pierce]

William,
I just did a fresh install of mingw, toolshed & lwtools recently. It all builds and NitrOS9 builds. I haven't tested ALL disks, but the ones I did test, tested positive.

My advice to anyone trying this in Windows is to follow the link from the Nitros9.org site to the "Building Nitros9 in Windows" link and follow the instructions there as they are now correct.
One note about installing mingw & mercurial for Windows, the directions on the NOS9 site say to use 32 or 64 bit mercurial, which ever is right for your machine. I tried 64 bit as my machine & OS is 64 bit and it did nothing but error on all builds. I switched to the 32 bit build and the errors went away. I think it has to do with mingw only being available for 32 bit and they're clashing. This may prove different on different machines.

Other than that, it now builds properly with only a couple of errors which are not mingw, mercurial, toolshed or lwtools related, just incorrect makefiles on obscure folders.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 2:19 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] lwtools on Windows


On 2013-09-14 23:56, Gene Heskett wrote:
> But your use of what I have, which is now about 3 months old, for lwtools
> in particular, will need an assembler or compiler that runs on windows.
> Since M$hit doesn't think the user has any business building his own, I
> have no clue what choices you have to successfully build it on windows.
> The 00README.txt file does not mention windows, and a quick inspection of
> the Makefile indicates its written in more or less pure *nix language.
>
> Perhaps MinGW can build it?

For the record, the official distribution point for lwtools is 
http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/.

lwtools is known to build under mingw and I have reports of it working 
under cygwin. However, I don't officially support Windows so building 
under mingw and cygwin do not get tested regularly. Since I don't have a 
Windows system to build on, I don't provide Windows binaries either. I 
used to build binaries with a cross-compiler (mingw as it happens) but 
that proved to be a lot less stable than one would hope.

If someone wants to apply to be the official "lwtools on windows" guy 
and make sure it builds and/or provide windows binaries, ping me off 
list and we can discuss it.

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