Re: [Swarm-Support] Installing Swarm with cygwin

[Paul E Johnson]

Dear Otto

It appears to me you do not have a lot of experience with software and 
building programs.  So I'd say that you should not be trying to build 
swarm at all. You should try to get Cygwin running, then take a copy of 
Swarm-2.2 pretest version 6, untar it, and make the setup changes 
recommended in the FAQ.

I think the only change you need to make is to remove the Cygwin tcl/tk 
package and install the one I annnounced in here yesterday.

For a new user who knows nothing about the ins and outs of building GNU 
software, you are going at it the wrong way.  And the src/needed 
directory in ftp does not have stuff you need, generally it has stuff 
other people needed in the past.

So please consult the FAQ again and see about installing the 2.2 pretest.

OVer the weekend, I will see if I can't build an updated snapshot for 
you against the current cCygwin distro.

pj

Otto Cordero wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I am have downloaded cywin and the latest swarm pretest, in order to 
> finally get swarm running in my win-xp machine. I have also followed the 
> instructions of Paul Johnson's FAQ but there seems to be some libraries 
> missing. Exactly those in ftp.... src/needed. I have downloaded almost 
> all this libraries as .tar.gz files, I would like to know if someone can 
> tell me how to install those libraries....
>  
> Additionally, can I just move the required dlls and exes from Swarm 
> 2.1.1/bin to my Swarm 2.2/bin directory?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Otto.
>  
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