Re: [Swarm-Support] Swarm installation problem: on Windows XP Home

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Yifeng,

        your description of the cygwin installation increases my suspect 
that something is now wrong with the package. My suggestion is that of 
reinstalling cygwin. You have to delete two registers, with regedit 
(Software\Cygnus Solutions' under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and/or 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER) and to delete the \cygwin folder.

        A suggestion: with setup.exe first of all download the 
packages  from Internet and then Install from local directory. If something 
goes wrong, you have locally the installation stuff.

        To install Swarm you have only to unpack it; if you have it in 
c:\, from cygwin execute the followin lines:

cd /cygdrive/c/
tar zxf Swarm-2.2-pretest-10.tar.gz
mkdir /Swarm-2.2
mount 'c:\Swarm-2.2' /Swarm-2.2

        Then create in your cygwin home directory a .bashrc file containing:

export SWARMHOME=/Swarm-2.2
export SWARMDIR=/Swarm-2.2
PATH=.:$SWARMHOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
export LESSCHARSET=latin1
export TMPDIR=/tmp
export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/Swarm-2.2/lib
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
cd

        The best, Pietro

ùAt 20.39 19/10/2003, you wrote:
> Pietro, thank you very much for helping me.  I did have a full 
> installation of Cygwin.  Did somebody you know have a sucessful 
> installation of Swarm-2.2 on Windows recently?  It's tricky even just to 
> install Cygwin.  The Cygwin's setup.exe hangs during post-installation 
> script phase.  I worked around by selecting "pre" (previous) packages for 
> installation.  After Cywin is working, I run setup.exe again and selected 
> "cur" (current), which updated/installed some more packages.  In both 
> installation, I had a full installation (selecting "install" for 
> "all").  Because of this unhappy experience with Cygwin installation, I am 
> kind of hestitate to install it again.  But I'll do it if it's necessary.
>
> Again, any help on this will be appreciated.
>
> Yifeng Zhang
>
> Pietro Terna <address@hidden> wrote:
> >         It seems like you don't have a full installation of Cygwin; try 
> > it, assuring that the choice screen is similar to the attached one.
> >
> >         Anyway, use pretest 10.
> >
> >         All the best, Pietro
> >
> > At 00.27 18/10/2003, you wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > > I have been trying to install Swarm in the past several days and hit 
> > > some problems.  My computer has Windows XP Home in it.  I successfully 
> > > installed all Cygwin packages (the lastest version) and it is 
> > > working.  Then I installed Swarm-2.2-pretest-10, which is the latest 
> > > version at this time.  I set the mount and path correctly.  However, 
> > > when I run heatbugs, I get the error message that "cygtcl80.dll was not 
> > > found".  I then tried to install the package tcktk-20001125 which 
> > > contains the needed dll.  However, the current Cygwin setup.exe doesn't 
> > > allow me to install it.  I also tried pretest-9 and pretest-6 and wasn't 
> > > able to make it.  I can't uncompress pretest-7.  Don't know if it's my 
> > > problem or the file was corrupted.  I am trying pretest-8 now.
> > >
> > > I have an ongoing project implemented in Swarm.  So I really need swarm 
> > > up and running.  Any sugge! stions will be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Yifeng Zhang
> > >
> > >
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