Installing Swarm on Win95, C-drive

[Gek Woo Tan]

Hi,

I'm new to Swarm.  However, I see a lot of people who are also new to 
Swarm and have questions about installing Swarm on Win95, so I'd like to 
share my experience.

I have no problems installing and running the heatbug example when I 
install on C-drive.  However, I am still having problems installing Swarm 
on D-drive ... couldn't compile Heatbugs.

But here are the steps for installing Swarm on Win95, C-drive:
1)  Files to download
    ftp://ftp2.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/win32Swarm.exe
    ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b19/cdk.exe
    ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b19/usertools.exe
2)  Installing Cygnus
    Double click on cdk.exe file that you downloaded.  It will 
automatically do the set up.  It will ask you which directory you want to 
install Cygnus in.  Leaving it in the default directory (i.e. 
C:\Cygnus\B19) works the best.
    Next, double click and install usertools.exe.
3)  Installing Swarm
    Double click on win32Swarm.exe.  Install Swarm in C-drive (i.e. 
C:\Swarm) works the best too.
4)  Create tmp folder in C-drive, if you don't already have one.
5)  In C-drive, Swarm folder, click on Swarm (i.e. swarm.exe).  It will 
open a window, and with the lines displayed:
   To build the Swarm libraries, do:
      $ make -C swarm-1.1

   Then, to build a sample Swarm application, say `heatbugs', do:
      $ cd swarmapps-1.1/heatbugs
      $ make

   To set up the Swarm environment from the DOS prompt, run "swarm" from
   the top level Swarm directory.
If you see these lines, Swarm works correctly for you so far.  Just 
follow the instructions to compile swarm (i.e. $ make -C swarm-1.1) and
compile heatbugs.  To run heatbugs, click on heatbugs.exe (in 
c:\swarm\swarmapps-1.1\heatbugs folder).  You should see three windows 
popping up.  Click on "Go" and you should see a window with green dots 
(heatbugs) moving around.  

Hope this helps.

Gek Woo

P.S.  If someone could get Swarm working on D-drive, could you let me 
know how you did it?  Thanks.

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