[Help-smalltalk] Guide: Building on Windows

[Giuseppe Luigi Punzi]

Hi.

Canol, can you read it, and give me your ok? If so, Paolo, do you think 
is usefull to put in the wiki?

To be completed, is neede to put how to "extract" all the needed files 
from Msys folder, but I need to do some testing before.

I was to put it, but I think is better to get an Ok before doing some on 
official web.

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Most of us use Linux or MacOS, but, in this times, a Windows Box is 
needed at home, work etc..

We, as Software developers, as people thath need to express our ideas as 
applications, need GNU Smalltalk (GST) running on Windows too.

The process to get GST on this system is "easy" if you follow the next 
steps.

1.- Requeriments.

1.1.- MingW32: You can download from Here: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=240780

1.2.- MSYS: Until now (30/05/2008) the easy way for install MSYS is 
installing 1.0.10 version. 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963

1.3.- InfoZIP: Download from 
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/WIN32/zip232xN.zip

1.4.- TCL and TK sources: 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8419-src.zip and 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tk8419-src.zip

1.5.- GST, of course: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download


2.- First Steps (I will take deafult paths installations, and glpunzi as 
the username)

2.1.- Install Mingw32 with g++ compiler

2.2.- Install MSYS. In postinstall, tell the path for MingW32. C:/MinGW/

2.3.- Extract zip.exe from InfoZip on C:\Msys\1.0\bin

2.4.- Open Msys to create your user, and extract TCL, TK, and GST zip 
files to your MSYS home directory for example. C:\Msys\home\glpunzi

2.5.- From Msys, go to your home an enter on tcl8.4.19/win folder (cd 
/home/glpunzi/tcl8.4.19).

2.6.- Type: ./configure; make; make install

2.7.- Repeat step 3.6 on tk folder (cd /home/glpunzi/tk8.4.19/win)

2.8.- Go where you extracted GST (cd /home/glpunzi/smalltalk-3.0b) and type:
./configure --with-tcl=/home/glpunzi/tcl8.4.19/win 
--with-tk=/home/glpunzi/tk8.4.19/win
make
make install

3.- Now, you have a pretty GST running on Windows. From a Windows shell, 
go to C:\Msys\1.0\local\bin an execute gst to get the GST shell or 
gst-blox to open the GUI. It's important don't put the extension .exe

There are some bugs, but we need your help to improve it.