[Coco] ack!

[Bill Pierce]

Chris,
I think I screwed up anyway. Between the first attempt and the second, I reinstalled cygwin and I think I forgot to do the export. Now I'm doing another reinstall because now when I try to "make" anything it says "command not found 'make' "

I think my problem is not knowing what packages (exactly) are needed for cygwin.

Another problem is I had a previous install (older) on this computer and I think it's defaulting to the parameters in the registery from that install. Cygwin seems to have no "uninstall" feature so everything has to be uninstalled manually. If it's writing to the windows registery, then it NEEDS an uninstall function. This is a given in windows and anyone who programs for windows regularly knows this. All they have to do is use one of the free installer packages, most of which are open source and they will properly do a windows install AND uninstall. This is one of the very reasons Windows gets a bad name. Poor programming done by 3rd parties that don't follow the rules and therefore making windows look bad.

The same goes for any OS. Even in OS-9, Tandy was the worst for breaking their own rules. First OS-9 programming rule: Return your user back to the screen they were using when your program exits.
Tell that to Deskmate, Multivue, any of the Games written for OS-9 and many more. They always left you in some off the wall screen with weird colors. Multivue was the worst. Run my DW4Man or Sound Chaser... When you exit, your screen is reset to the exact format and settings you were in when you typed the cmd. I spent quite a bit of time researching this feature and it's fairly simple.
So is making an uninstaller for Windows.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 9:56 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> Christopher,
> I did that and it worked. Now the step 7. "make" cmd gives nothing
> but "can't find directory" errors and ultimately fails.
> 
> All went pretty well up to this point.
> As I said, I got a LOT of warnings in the lwtools installation.
> something about referencing "char"
> 
> Also, when installing cygwin, at the end of the installation I got 
> 
> Postinstall script errors:
> Package: cygutils
>     cygutils.sh exit code 127
> 
> and I have no idea if this has anything to do with it.

Bill:

	I have (thankfully) never used cygwin. So I don't know if the
export command in step 7 will work. If it's enough like a real unix,
then that command should set the environment variable NITROS9DIR and
    echo $NITROS9DIR
should print the current directory (and the make command should find all
the directories).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 8:03 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
> Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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:
> 
> 	You need to change to the nitros9 directory before the update.
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft




Christopher R. Hawks
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