Re: [Gcl-devel] Binary installation packages for Windoze

[Donald Winiecki]

I'll be glad to keep plugging, though it would be tremendous if Mike
Thomas could offer his knowledge on building the Windows installer.  I
see you're copying him on your communication, though I don't know how
much he can put into this now, if anything at all.  

I've been looking at NSIS installer for Windows, though I must admit
that it has me somewhat baffled.  It appears that Mike built his
installation files with something different.  

Even with Mike's directions and what I have been able to learn to date,
I am unable to get the gclm.bat file to operate all the way through to
create a desktop icon (14 years ago I could deal with batch code, but I
think I've lost everything I once knew) and I am unsure how he got the
MinGW directory to list into the build's directory structure (perhaps he
just dragged it in from somewhere before making the Windows installer).

None of my friends in the CS department can offer help on Windows. 
They're all on Linux, so I'm working without any straps for now.

Best,

_don

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>>> Camm Maguire <address@hidden> 1/3/2008 4:29 PM >>>
Greetings!  Thank you SO much for your help here!

"Donald Winiecki" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've got the CLTL1 and ANSI variants compiled now--most of the MinGW
and MSYS files recommended by Mike Thomas' are the (still) the right
ones
> (I tested the most recent versions of those files and then
backtracked through each prior version and combination of files to
discover this). 
> 

Great!

>  
> 
> However, I am yet to get the embedded DOS batch file to run and make
a desktop icon for the executable, and I still have to put together a
> real Windows-installation package.
> 
>  
> 
> I suspect these last two things will take a bit longer.  Since there
doesn't seem to be much demand for Windows' files, I won't have it on
the
> top of my things to do, but hope to get it done, and new 'how to'
files prepared in the next few weeks.
> 
>  

While I agree there is no terrible rush, any effort you could
contribute here would be very greatly appreciated, especially getting
a downloadable installation package put together.  The reason I say
especially is that this is the one aspect of GCL concerning which I
have the least knowledge, and of course that Windows users are not
accustomed to building software themselves.  Perhaps I can
learn/assist along with you the basics of windows installers :-).

I have remote access to a mingw box, but have not explored it yet.
I've been uploading gclcvs packages to Debian of late to try to get
cvs HEAD in shape for release.  While this is looking quite good,
there is still more work to be done.  After this, I would greatly
appreciate user feedback and experience using this branch, esp. on
different platforms, including Windows.

2.6.8pre by contrast is nearer at hand.  I do think we will need a
windows installer for this release.  I'd also like a working mac intel
port.  Otherwise, the image (packaged as Debian gcl-2.6.7-36) is
carrying axiom, maxima, acl2, and hol88 to all 12 Debian platforms.
I'll be uploading a new maxima and axiom to the autobuilders soon for
a double check.  Perhaps will get to a Debian nqthm package too, but
not sure. 


> 
> Thanks to Camm and Gaby for their help on these things.  (Don't know
were Camm is, but I'll bet the weather is somewhat nicer in College
> Station, TX than it is up here in Boise, and I know for sure that
> it's very warm and dry in Brissy!  Hope that you're all keeping warm
> through

My apologies -- the holidays imposed a brief hiatus.

Take care,

> these early-winter greys...)
> 
>  
> 
> Best,
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> _don
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don Winiecki, Ed.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
> Boise State University, College of Engineering
> Department of Instructional & Performance Technology
> 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725-2070 USA
> E-mail: address@hidden 
> WWW: http://ipt.boisestate.edu 
> Telephone: (+01) 208 426 1899
> Fax: (+01) 208 426 1970
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