A small suggestion (was: Re: [Win32] VM update (3.2 release candidate))

Jason Dufair jase at dufair.org
Tue May 14 03:59:58 UTC 2002


I'm afraid that cygwin is the first thing that goes on any Windows pc I 
own, so I can't test either.  But didn't the make, gcc, etc in your 
"toolkit" come from some other source besides cygwin (like mingw - 
something I'm utterly unfamiliar with)?  If so, does that source include 
cp and rm?

I was able to build the vm, by the way.  Thanks for the excellent 
instructions.  It was relatively painless for something that, under the 
hood, is a pretty complex beast.  I'm now hacking the libmpeg stuff to 
get it to play nice with id3v2 tags once and for all.  It appears that 
Heroine virtual is AWOL, so I'm not hacking on the original source 
anymore.  Additionally, it looks like they're going to roll libmpeg into 
another one of their projects anyway.  It might be nice to update our 
libmpeg3 to a more recent version of heroine's tree, however.  The 
latest has some nice buffered I/O going on.  I may play with that after 
I get the id3 stuff fixed.

Then it's on to bigger and better things like libvorbis!

Andreas Raab wrote:

>Jason,
>
>Thanks for the info. Do you know if these commands will run without the
>cygwin dll?! I haven't bothered to check but I know that almost
>everything that's been built using the Cygwin tool chain links to this
>dll.
>
>[Note that I can't test it since I _do_ have Cygwin installed so the DLL
>is already on my machine].
>
>Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
>>[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Jason Dufair
>>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:35 PM
>>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>Subject: A small suggestion (was: Re: [Win32] VM update (3.2 
>>release candidate))
>>
>>
>>Hi Andreas -
>>
>>I just have one small suggestion to make.  I'm building the 3.2.1 vm 
>>>from sources on Win2K and it's having trouble with the copy and del 
>>commands (which are built into cmd.exe on the NT variants of 
>>Windows). 
>> Even with a cmd /C copy and such, it seems to lose the 
>>current dir and 
>>complains about files not found and such.  My suggestion:  include 
>>copies of rm.exe and cp.exe in the toolset and change the makefile to 
>>use these (converting backslashes to slashes as well).  This seems to 
>>work fine on my machine (where I have cygwin in the path *after* the 
>>tools you packaged, of course).  Let me know if you want a patch or 
>>anything.
>>
>>Andreas Raab wrote:
>>    
>>





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