Re: Forward: Swarm won't work on windows NT because of path problem

[glen e. p. ropella]

Hey,
In light of Mike's message, I thought I'd post my general
instructions for installing Swarm on an NT box (I won't support
anyone using Win9x unless they pay me.... lots of money).

I hope these are useful.  There's no guarantee that this is
a complete or consistent algorithm.
glen

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If you don't have a 2.0.1 Swarm CD, then go to
http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/release-swarm.html#binary
and download the Cygnus full.exe and the swarm-2.0.1.exe.

[Note that all the paths I use below will probably be different
on your system. So, where I use "x:\", you might have "c:\"
and where I have "x:\Java", you might have something else.]

1) Install full.exe.

2) After it's installed, start the cygnus shell by going to
Start->Programs->Cygnus Solutions->Cygwin B20

3) Check how the file system is setup by typing:
   $ mount
If you get something weird or you don't have "/" mounted on
the partition Cygnus is on, for example, if it looks like:

{09:50:39|gepr}$ mount
Device           Directory           Type        Flags
x:               /hooga              native      text!=binary
y:               /ooga               native      text!=binary

then remove all the entries by:
   $umount /hooga
   $umount /ooga

and mount up properly with:
   $ mount x: /
   $ mount y: /usr


3) Create the /bin, /tmp, and /etc directories
with the following commands:
$ mkdir /bin
$ mkdir /tmp
$ mkdir /etc

4) Copy the shell script runner into the /bin directory with:
$ cp /cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe

5) Create a password file in /etc with:
$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd

6) Kill the cygnus window

7) Install Swarm by running the Swarm-2.0.1.exe program.

8) Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->System->Environment
and ensure that the following two variables are set:
USER <your username how you log in to the machine>
HOME x:\Swarm-2.0.1

---- continued for using Sun jdk.

9) Get the Java 2 SDK from http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/

10) Edit the x:\Swarm-2.0.1\.bash_login file and add the following
line *before* the "export path ..." command:
path="/Java/jdk1.2.2/bin:$path"

11) Add the following line anywhere in the .bash_login file:
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH;.;x:/swarm-2.0.1/share/swarm/swarm.jar;
x:/Java/JGL/jgl3.1.0/lib/jgl3.1.0.jar"
all on one line without the break between the ";" and the next library.

glen

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