[Coco] ack!

[Bill Pierce]

Ok, that's all fine and good for those who have commit access.
Let's say I (no commit access) just wanted to install the tools, download the files, and build the repo locally.
Starting from scratch, how would I set this up? This is assuming that there's no LWTools installation, or any of the minigw or cygwin. I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium.

Step by step, what would have to be done to compile the repo?

The reason I ask this, is there are a lot of people who've asked the same question and got "partial" answers. On this list, questions like this  usually go the way of "well you need he current mingw... No, you must use the old one... no it's the new one but with these arguments... Ok but you need Linux... But I'm running Windows... but if you get Linux you can.... And Linux this.... and Linux that.... " OR "you need toolshed... No toolshed is gone, lwtools is in... but I cant build lwtools in windows... in linux it's easy... linux this.... linux that..." and the conversation never comes back to the question. How do I go from scratch to a NitrOS9 build? I am not bad mouthing Linux here, it's a fine system WHEN set up right, BUT I'm not ditching 15 years of building a stable windows system that does exactly what I want and has no problems to install something I know nothing about and cannot use my $10k+ of archived software collected over 15 years just to build Nitros9 when I KNOW it is being done in windows as well.

The bad thing is, I will get more response from the above statement than I will the question.
Remember?.... there was a question up there... :-P


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-----Original Message-----
From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 1:40 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


From: Gene Heskett

> I tried to do a test build a day or so back, but my last pull seems to 
> have
> disabled mamou for a level3 build.
>
> If anyone has a makefile/rules.mak files that work with lwtools stuff, I
> would appreciate copies.
>
> Or, if anyone knows, is the repo open again so I can do an hg update?
> apparently not, it comes back instantly with no files changed.
>
> Is there some new magic incantation to pull a new 'tip'?

Have you switched to the new repository after SourceForge moved it to the 
new SourceForge platform on May 16? If you have commit permission, the new 
repository is at ssh://<username>@hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code. The old 
repository is still available at 
http://nitros9.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/nitros9/nitros9, but it's 
read-only.

The reason I ask is because Boisy committed a lot of changes to the 
makefiles six days ago.


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