[Coco] Build NitrOS9 on Windows, step by step

[Kip Koon]

Bill and All,
Recently, I too had to reinstall NitrOS-9 build'ing platform only I was using cygwin.  I have a Windows 7 x64 laptop, so I opted to install cygwin64.  Once I figured out how to include everything in the install, I let it run for hours on end.  Once the install was finally finished, I moved all my directories from my user folder in the home folder using windows from the cygwin installation to the cygwin64 installation.  I hg pull'd and hg update'd and make'd lwtools, toolshed and nitros9.  All three built with absolutely no errors.  I count myself fortunate because I am just barely understanding the makefiles.  What make documentation is there to read?

Kip Koon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pierce via Coco
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Build NitrOS9 on Windows, step by step


Tormod & Aaron, these are the exact same problems I've had for about the past 2 or 3 months. Before that, everything was fine. In those two months, I did a reinstall of mingw & mercurial.... I wonder if some update of mingw caused this. In looking at the "versions" and releases for mingw... it looks like there was a version change right about the time this started (and I reinstalled).
 
I just did a complete uninstall and delete, then followed Aaron's directions in the new wiki.
Everything worked except for creating the "index.html" for the "dsks" folder (very last action of make dskcopy)... that failed with a perl error. I did a "mingw-get msys-perl-bin" and now it runs fine, assembles all disks.
This was never needed before. Something has definately changed in mingw.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 11:01 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Build NitrOS9 on Windows, step by step


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If "sort" fails it can be because the "locale" has not been 
>> initialized, which is probably done by the msys postinstall in 
>> Aaron's fine manual.
>
> Well, "sort" is there and runs... It was just not finding commands like "echo" 
-- giving errors that said "./echo: cannot execute binary file". Looks like more of a PATH thing.

Yes, my guess was wild, and after looking at the postinst, it seems wrong as well.

This is the msys current-dir-in-path illness. It will try to execute the os9 module called echo... The module should not have execution rights on the build filesystem. Does it? If not it is even more awkward.

Tormod

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