[Coco] lwtools on Windows

[Bill Pierce]

Mark,
I guess I missed the link to the 64 bit mingw. It wasn't listed on the page linked in the wiki. They are all 32 bit builds (I think). I just didn't look any further. Now that I know I can get a 64 bit version, I may try that with the 64 bit mercurial and see how it works. I know I saw someone post that using 64 bit to build NOS9 was a lot faster. I know the 32 bit version is sloooow. Especially on a 64 bit system.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 8:56 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] lwtools on Windows


Mingw 64-bit is available; not sure why you think it isn't!?!



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Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
>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
>My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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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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