[Vm-dev] Compiling the windows 32 bits vm

[Alistair Grant]

Hi Cyril,

On 5 April 2018 at 01:08, Cyril Ferlicot D <cyril at ferlicot.me> wrote:
>
> Le 04/04/2018 à 20:28, Eliot Miranda a écrit :
>>
>> Could we add this as a script to
>> {build.win32x86,build.win64x64}/HowToBuild ?  It would be awesome to
>> have an executable fragment that set-up a Windows build machine.  It's a
>> pain in the *ass* setting up cygwin but one gets lots of tools.
>>
> Hello Eliot,
>
> When I'll succeed compiling my first vm 32bits on windows I'll try to
> provide a PR to improve the HowToBuild.
>
> I created an issue to not forget:
>
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/237

Maybe you're already planning this, but rather than extending the
instructions in HowToBuild, can you provide an actual script that does
the work, and point to it in HowToBuild?  I haven't looked at the
windows build, but taking travis and Unix as an example, it could be
something like (obviously pseudo-code):

export ARCH=linux64x64
source .travis_install
cygwin install ....


That means that each package is only installed from one place.

Cheers,
Alistair