I have a good [rough draft] start on very detailed (too detailed?) steps to properly install Cygwin and build the Cog VM on Windows.  I just need to add preparing the image for first time use, etc...:

http://book.pharo-project.org/book/Virtual-Machine/Building/BuildVMOnWindows/BuildCogVMOnWindows/

(I haven't started editing/revising yet).

Anyway, if anyone could help me properly position my two topics, "Cog VM" and "Traditional (Squeak) VM" underneath "The MS-Windows way," I would greatly appreciated it.  Although they are subsections, they are fully "unindented" like a chapter in the table of contents...

Thank you,

Rob

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:12 AM, laurent laffont <laurent.laffont@gmail.com> wrote:

 

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Rob Rothwell <r.j.rothwell@gmail.com> wrote:

 
Disregard!  I have found the magic incantation and even got Pharo 1.1  running in a VM compiled on my own!

Cool, this is waiting for you :) http://book.pharo-project.org/book/Virtual-Machine/Building/BuildVMOnWindows/ 

Laurent

 

I will try to type up the formula for others to follow in terms of installing cygwin and the required tools.

Thank you,

Rob

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Rob Rothwell <r.j.rothwell@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there some way to package the tools required to build Cog similar to the Squeak-Win32-Tools package that is available for the standard Squeak VM?

I just don't seem to be savvy enough to choose all the proper cygwin options.  I DID manage to get subversion loaded in cygwin and check out the sources, but I am sure I am doing the wrong thing by installing the 1.7.5 version of cygwin since HowToBuild references 1.5.24.  Plus, I just can't seem to get the right gcc...I keep getting "gcc: The -mno-cygwin flag has been removed; use a mingq-targeted cross-compiler," and I just can't seem to get the right installation options selected in the "Devel" section.

So...either a prebuilt bundle or very specific instructions for mere mortals would be very helpful!  It would be nice to keep up with the fixes; this VM made a HUGE difference in some Binaural Beat generation code I have that writes very large audio files.  I can actually fork the code now and keep using the image with very good responsiveness!  Amazing!

Thanks for any help,

Rob