Need a new maintainer for Windows/Cygwin Swarm binary package (was Re: How I solved it)

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "Jie" == Jie Wu <address@hidden> writes:

Jie> The only solution I can find is to upgrade my cygwin
Jie> installation.  So I did it to update to the latest 1.3.12-2 from
Jie> the current installed 1.3.9.  Then make clean and make again, ok
Jie> now the complain about "cygwin1.dll" disappeared but the running
Jie> complained that the entry point of "png_create_read_struct" not
Jie> found in "cygpng2.dll" (you know at this point, cygpng2.dll
Jie> should already be the newest upgraded version).  I simply
Jie> uninstall the libpng2 and install it again using the cygwin
Jie> setup.exe then the re-compiled (every time I do some
Jie> install/uninstall ops) heatbugs flies!

Jie> But there are still some strange error messages such as <<<(Tcl
Jie> -eval:) couldn't read file
Jie> "/Swarm-2.2/share/blt2.4/bltGraph.tcl": no such file or directory
Jie> while executing "source $blt_library/bltGraph.tcl">>> once and
Jie> the same for "bltDragdrop.tcl" 12 times, then also <<<(Tcl
Jie> -eval:) invalid command name "Blt_ZoomStack" while executing
Jie> "unknown_pre_tclObjc $name $args" (procedure "unknown" line 6)>>>
Jie> after I pressed the start button.  Of course those files exist in
Jie> the right directory and all have a 644 file mode.  However the
Jie> simulation seems running properly. Then I built another example
Jie> mousetrap it also runs properly with similar .tcl error messages.

Jie> Well I got it right more or less but I don't know the details of
Jie> why.  Any insights?

I suspect it's a version incompatibility with respect to the version
that Swarm was built with and TCL/Tk/BLT stuff in Cygwin, but as you
say, it doesn't appear to be fatal.

Unfortunately the last Swarm binary snapshot (prerelease 6) for
Cygwin, is going to drift more and more out of date with respect to
the current Cygwin, unless we find a new maintainer.

It would be great if some Windows user could volunteer to be the
Windows/Cygwin maintainer (like Bill Northcott did with MacOS X) and
try to build the latest CVS snapshot of Swarm with the latest Cygwin,
and even better, help package it as a "true" Cygwin package, so we can
freeze the 2.2 release and do a "stable" release of Swarm under
Cygwin.

I only occasionally use Windows, although I have passing familiarity
with Cygwin, I'm not invested enough in Windows to spend the time on
tweaking, but I'm sure that there are others who are invested... ;-)

A.
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      Alex Lancaster |  Swarm Development Group  |  http://www.swarm.org


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