Re: [Swarm-Support] Where to find terminal in Swarm-2.1 binary dist on Windows ?

[amores nolikeyjunk]

> Swarm-2.1.1, you mean?

Yes. I had hoped it would work out-of-the-box.

> That installs a version of the Cygwin-like framework that Marcus Daniels 
> put together and it does put in a Swarm menu item with a terminal.  If you 
> don't have that, I can't explain why. There won't be a terminal.exe file, 
> because Cygwin is a dos box running the bash shell.

Ok, I don't know why that failed, but I'm going to pick one of
your recommended approaches below, instead of pursuing this :)

> or, if you don't want that,

Unfortunately, I really need something that can be given to
others to run on MS-Windows, so the following seems to be
the best choice for me.

> 2. On the WIndows system, be methodical and install Cygwin. Be sure to do 
> it as the administrator, as a result of recent changes.  Then install 
> Swarm-2.2pre.  Then either
>     A.  remove the tcl package Cygwin provided and install the old one. If 
> it does not work, please report carefully on what goes wrong. We have many 
> users for whom it does work.

Ok, I'll do this again, from scratch, and try to take very
careful notes.

Thanks again for all the help (which I think is entirely
volunteer!)



> My perception is that you are bouncing around, trying lots of different 
> things, not understanding what you are doing, and then you move on to try 
> the next thing before you finish figuring out the one before. I can't help 
> you very well because by the time you ask a question about something you 
> are trying, you are on to trying yet another thing. So choose one path of 
> attack, then keep trying until you make it work, or can UNDERSTAND why it 
> does not work.  Especially on Windows systems, you run into trouble with 
> constantly installing and uninstalling things. Programs leave behind trash 
> that is hard to get rid of.

What I can do to alleviate this, is do my next attempt from
scratch on a virgin Windows machine. That can't hurt :)

Plus, that way it won't impact the cygwin that I use for other
projects (which was a problem I hit when removing the cygtcl80
didn't yield me a working cygwin again; this impacted other
things I do on cygwin).

Cordially,

Perry


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