[M3devel] windows devel, howto?

[Coleburn, Randy]

I have cm3 running on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7.

I have used various editions of the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express C++ to provide for linking and C-compiler support, including the 2010 edition.

I have provided some scripts (windows command shell files) etc that I use.  See "scripts\dev\windows" and "scripts\install\windows".  These deal effectively with the various flavors of the Microsoft VS tools (you may have to edit one line of the CMD file to match the version of VS you have--see embedded comments).

I know Jay has provided some python scripts also that purportedly work for Windows, but I don't use these, preferring to stay with native windows command shell support.

Once you get MS VS Express C++ installed and the minimal cm3 binary installation for cm3 (I recommend rooting the cm3 install at C:\cm3"), you can download the entire source code repository via CVS into a sandbox folder (e.g., C:\cm3\Sandbox), then use my scripts to build everything.  

You would copy the "scripts\install\windows\*.cmd" files to your "C:\cm3\bin" folder, edit "C:\cm3\bin\cm3CommandShell.CMD" to match your VS environment (the default is VS 2010), then cd to "scripts\dev\windows" and run "RCC_upgradeCM3.CMD -all" to rebuild everything.  Alternately, you can try Jay's python scripts, but you would need to check with him on how to use these.

Let me know if you have questions/concerns.

Regards,
Randy Coleburn

-----Original Message-----
From: Dragiša Durić [mailto:dragisha at m3w.org] 
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 7:46 AM
To: m3devel
Subject: [M3devel] windows devel, howto?

I see msvc 9.0 is requirement, but MS offers only latest and greatest
2010?

Can someone spare few moments to coach me to Win Modula-3? :)

TIA
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Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>