Re: Swarm 1.1 Available

[Wengui Su]

I just install Swarm-1.1 on my PC under win95. The way I did it is:

1. down load CDK.exe from Cygnus, and install it first. 
It is a straight forward process. CDK.exe seems including everything needed to 
work with swarm(Tcl8.0 etc). 
2. Then download Swarm-1.1 for Win95/NT binary distribution. It is also a 
straight forward installation process. It has tclobjc, blt and other libraries 
used by swarm. 
3. replace c:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\bin\cygwinb19.dll with the one comes 
with Swarm under the Swarm directory. Then you can do the compilation for Swarm 
library following the instruction in readme file under Swarm. It takes me 
several hours to work it out. The main problem for this installation on my 
machine is

I couldn't finish the compilation because it freezed my computer in the middle.

Solution: I went to individual compiling processes for each of the 
libraries(run 
make in defobj, collections etc), and then run the main make under Swarm in 
order to copy the library file into the right place. I haven't figure out what 
is the reason for screen freezing. But I got the same thing when I mistyped a 
command in bash under Cygnus, and so I suspect the problem is due to the Cygnus 
and win95. I hope somebody can explain it to me.

Anyway, I succesfully compiled the Swarm libraries, and the heatbugs and 
hello-world-v3, and it works fine.

hope this would help

Wengui Su

Department of Geography
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia

> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:51:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Doug Donalson;" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Swarm 1.1 Available
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> 
> Here are the first Win95 comments.  I know most of you are having
> fun at SwarmFest, so a reply may take a bit.
> 
> Note (Marcus) that I still need to comment out those few lines
> of code in schedule.m to get my schedules to work.  This means
> I can't use the binaries.  (How hard would it be to make a second
> binary with that code commented out?  He asks hopefully.)
> 
> I got the Cygnus software (a 1 hr+ download), it installed fine.
> It does not come with BLT8.0.  I got blt8.0 from the swarm site
> and came to my first problem(s).  One is the makefile for it is
> written for Visual C++ nmake and needs MAJOR mods and more
> expertiese than I have to convert.  Also, blt wants a bunch of
> files not supplied by the Cygnus install.  Two examples are 
> tcl8.0.dll and tk8.0.dll.
> 
> I next tried the .exe (binary) form of tcl/tk8.0 from the ftp site.  That
> also installed well and provided the .dll files.  It didn't solve
> my makefile prob but I went and got a $40 book that provides
> a cut down version of visual C++ and installed that.  The compile
> started to run with nmake!
> 
> I then discovered that the binary install of tk/tcl still didn't
> provide all the files that blt wanted.  Two examples are tkWinInt.h
> and tclInt.h.  At that point I got the source versions and tried to install
> them.  I got a link error LNK1561: entry point must be defined.  Yah,
> right, I understand exactly what that means and how to fix it.
> 
> Anyone got a better way to do this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>    Doug Donalson
> 
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