[M3devel] some more notes on the win32 system

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

> Shouldn't Jay's notes go somewhere on the CM3 Web-site?

Sure they should. I would suggest a Windows-specific chapter or link
in http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/installation.html, as well as a
news item on the first page.

Jay, could you extend the HTML documentation on your own and
check it into the reporitory, or do you need help?
It's all in the cm3/www package.

Once it's checked in, we can ship it to our WWW server.

Thanks in advance,

Olaf

>
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Jay wrote:
>
>> some more notes on the win32 system
>>
>>> setup your C++ compiler/linker
>>
>> You can/should "play dumb", skip that, and just run upgrade.
>> See what errors you get.
>> I tried to put in the right amount of up front sanity checking.
>>
>> What you need in particular are
>>
>> cl and link on the %PATH%.
>>  See, cminstall would have you specify full paths, my configuration  
>>  uses %PATH%.
>> If using VS2005 (8) or newer, mt on the path.
>>
>> %LIB% is a semicolon delimited list of directories.
>> That is a feature of the Microsoft linker.
>> msvcrt.lib must be in one of them.
>>
>> Any 32 bit version of Visual C++ -- 2.0, 4.0,, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 6.0,   
>> 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 -- should work.
>> I have tested all of them some and many required small changes in   
>> one particular spot,
>> that actually is only used by "maintainers"   
>> (C:\dev2\cm3\m3-win\import-libs\src\make-lib-1.cmd).
>> I use 8.0 the most lately.
>> I haven't done much with 9.0.
>>
>> Another thing, fairly redundant:
>>
>> C:\dev2\cm3\m3-win>more vcredist.txt
>> On computers without Visual C++ 2005 or CLR 2.0 installed, download  
>>  and run the setup for the Visual C++ runtime -- vcredist_x86.exe  
>> --  from either
>>
>> RTM (release to manufacturing):
>>    
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE
>>
>> or Service Pack 1:
>>    
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647
>>
>> You can find those searching the web for vcredist, no real need to   
>> recort the URLs. That's about it.
>>
>> - Jay
>>
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