[Swarm-Support] Re: I wish I didn't have to use windows

[Paul Johnson]

I'm sorry to say I did not succeed in building a new Swarm pretest 
snapshot on Windows. On my Windows ME system I could not get swarm to 
work at all, as a matter of fact. It does work on my NT system, after 
installing the older tcltk package. I may try to build Swarm on there, 
but that system is pretty slow, building gcc takes a full workday...

I'm hoping somebody from the community will step forward to build a 
windows snapshot. I really wish I had the time/patience, but since I 
moved over to Linux in order to use Swarm in 1997, I feel a certain 
amount of anguish and unhappiness to have to go back to Windoze and 
build something for other people.


Jacob D. Goldstein wrote:
> Paul,
>
> On 2003.03.07 you wrote:
>
>  > OVer the weekend, I will see if I can't build an updated snapshot for
>  > you against the current cCygwin distro.
>
> Did you ever get to do it?  I tried downloading and using the old tcl/tk 
> you kindly made available at
>
> <http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/miscSupportSoftware/Cygwin/tcltk-20001125-1.tar.gz>http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/miscSupportSoftware/Cygwin/tcltk-20001125-1.tar.gz 
>
>
> Unfortunately, I am unable to expand the file with winzip, even though I 
> had no problem with the tar.gz swarm and swarmapps files.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jake Goldstein



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