Doc Schneider writes: > Doc Schneider wrote: > > Sidney Markowitz wrote: > >> Doc Schneider wrote, On 11/4/07 9:47 AM: > >>> ARG. I have been trying to get a buildbot slave running on ActivePerl > >>> on Win XP (Pro) but without installing cygein or something like MSVC++ > >>> it won't make things (like spamc/ some perl mods not actually available > >>> from ppg [ppg is AP's only cpan type thing] and all together it is a > >>> b*tch to build without any C tools.) But am wondering if I run the BB > >>> Slave from cygwin would that be good enough to say "this works" on > >>> Win32? Or else I'm going to have to find, again, that free c compiler I > >>> ran across somewhere but didn't bookmark. To make SA install without > >>> using Cygwin. I did bookmark that stolennotebook.com but it doesn't seem > >>> to be all that helpful. Could be just me too. 8*) > >>> > >> Microsoft has a free (as in beer, not libre) version of Visual C++ 2005 > >> for download at: > >> > >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/ > >> > >> I haven't tried building with this version. The last time I did this I > >> used the free version of Visual C++ 2003. > >> > >> I was sure that there is an option to Makefile.PL to disable building > >> spamc, but that doesn't help you if you need a C compiler to get some > >> necessary module from ppg. > >> > >> It would _not_ be sufficient to test only the Cygwin build, as that has > >> more in common with the *nix builds than it does with Win32 build. > >> > >> It does help to also have Cygwin on the same machine because that allows > >> you to run spamd under Cygwin and configure the Win32 tests to assume a > >> spamd on localhost when doing the spamc tests. > >> > >> -- sidney > >> > > > > Ok am installing this Free compiler on my WinXP box now. Will let you > > know how it works. > > > > I have everything else mostly working as far as buildbot goes. It is > > Python and, although it used an older version, it does build and tested > > ok. Just the perl stuff was driving me up a tree. Thanks a bunch Sidney! > > > > Working on this crap again today, got all the M$ components but when I > issue nmake it errors out when building spamc.exe > Fatal Error: don't know how to make 'replace/getopts.c' > > I'm working with the current trunk also. I see no replace directory in > spamc\
I think this should now be fixed... bug in the spamc build stuff. --j.
