[Coco] ack!

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 June 2013 20:51:15 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Lothan,
> So far all has gone well up to step 6 with the exception of a ton of
> "warnings" in the lwtools build. No errors though. I may have missed a
> support file as that part wasn't explained thoroughly. i.e. step 1
> "etc..." When one knows NOTHING of the system, "etc.." is absolutely
> useless. A full list is needed as to what needs to be included. The
> Cygwin installation was painless, but not knowing "what" to include as
> "etc." isn't a Cygwin option. It's these kind of instructions that
> killed OS-9 for newbies in the 80s and 90s. I'm not saying you were not
> helpful or that I'm the average unknowledgable user, but when details
> matter, they should be included. I just downloaded the defaults as I
> didn't know what else to include. I already had Mercurial installed on
> my system from a previous attempt at creating my own repository for
> something else. I assumed it would work and it did. I don't know if I
> missed anything else.
> 
> Here's what I get in step 6.
> 
> This works fine:
> hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9
> 
> This gives an error:
> hg update lwtools-port
> "abort: no repository found in 'c:/cygwin/home/username' (.hg not
> found)"
> 
> So what am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Bill Pierce
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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 6:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
> 
> 
> Oh... under the NitrOS-9 build step at the end, you might change from
> make to make all. I think make does a make all by default, but just in
> case...
> 
> If you want to create the disks images, you'll also need to run make dsk
> right after make all.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pierce
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 5:26 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
> 
> 
> Thank you Lothan, I will give that a try and see if it works for me.
> If it does, I will make a page on my site explaining the process as this
> is one of the most asked questions here other than "how do I make a
> boot disk?"
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Bill Pierce
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 4:58 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
> 
> 
> This is what I'm doing with Windows 7 to build NitrOS-9 using the latest
> Cygwin. You can probably use mingw as well, but I have no information on
> how to setup mingw to get it working properly.
> 
> 1. Install Cygwin with all the appropriate packages (gcc, make,
> mercurial, etc.).
> 
> 2. Download Toolshed for Windows
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/files/ToolShed/ToolShed%202.0/
> toolshed_2.0_windows.zip/download)
> 
> and install it somewhere. After it's installed copy Toolshed\os9.exe to
> \Cygwin\usr\local\bin
> 
> 3. Download lwtools 4.7
> (http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/releases/lwtools/lwtools-4.7.tar.gz) to
> your Cygwin home directory (e.g. C:\Cygwin\home\<username>
> 
> 4. Extract lwtools to your home directory in Cygwin
>    gunzip lwtools-4.7.tar.gz
>    tar xvf lwtools-4.7.tar
> 
> 5. Build lwtools
>    cd lwtools-4.7
>    make all
>    make install
> 
> 6. Back in your home directory (cd ..), grab the latest NitrOS-9 code
> from the repository:
>     hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9

You will need to cd to the nitros9 sub-directory the above command should 
have created, the .hg directory is in the root of that one.

It might also be a good idea to do a

hg branch lwtools-port

before the below line

>     hg update lwtools-port

Then this one should work. 

Cheers, Gene
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