A small correction to the above. I just double checked, and I am not using
an installed NSIS version after all. It is sufficient to down load the
.zip file and unzip it into a directory.
Rick
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Erich Steinböck <
> erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> can anyone lead me through building for Windows
>>>
>> I'd also be very much interested in how to build the interpreter
>>
>> How much from scratch? What do you have installed already (svn, cmake,
>>> visual studio of some flavor, nsis, etc.)?
>>
>> Until now I've just installed SVN
>>
>
> Well, you will need to install some version of visual C++ (I recommend a
> recent version), One of the free express downloads is sufficient. You
> will also need Cmake (min 2.8.3 version). Optionally, you need a working
> Xerces install (although I suspect eventually you will want to have this).
> If you build the installer, you will need to also install NSIS. The
> downloads required for this can be found here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/windows-build-tools/1.0/
>
> Important note: When we switched to the CMake build, there's some stuff
> inside of CMake that looks for an installed version of NSIS. I found it
> necessary to download an NSIS install, then overlay that install with the
> files from the downloaded zip file. This is a special NSIS version that
> includes support for long environment strings.
>
> I used the following simple batch file to setup my build environment in a
> command window where I'm doing work.
>
> set TEST_DIR=C:\ORexxDev\testset SRC_DRV=C:set BLD_DIR=\OrexxDev\builds\%1set
> REXX_BUILD_HOME=%SRC_DRV%%BLD_DIR%set REXX_HOME=%SRC_DRV%%BLD_DIR%set
> EDITOR=notepad.execall "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;c:\Program Files
> (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\include;path
> c:\NSIS;%REXX_BUILD_HOME%\bin;%PATH%;c:\Xalan\bin;c:\Xerces\bin;%TEST_DIR%;%TEST_DIR%\framework;cd
> %BLD_DIR%
>
>
>
> The argument to the batch file is the location of a particular build. The
> build target will know the source location you work working with (more on
> this later). This adds the build bin directory to the path, as well as
> setting up path access to all of the needed build tools. This version
> assumes the 64-bit build. To build in 32-bits, remove the x64 from the
> vcvarsall batch file call.
>
> Once you have all of the tools installed, you can build with the following
> steps. I will show the command examples using my directory locations just
> for simplicity. Replace with whatever locations you prefer when you set
> this up yourself. The following assumes
>
> 1) Check out the code into a source directory.
>
> md \OrexxDev
> cd \OrexxDev
> svn cosvn+ssh://bigr...@svn.code.sf.net/p/oorexx/code-0/main/trunk oorexx
>
> 2) Create a directory for a build target:
>
> md \OrexxDev\builds\debug
> cd \OrexxDev\builds\debug
>
> 3) configure the build directory for building using cmake
>
> (from the build target directory)
>
> cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" c:\OrexxDev\oorexx
>
> This creates a build environment that linked to the checked out source.
> You can create and configure multiple builds from a single source tree.
> For example, the above creates the debug version. To create a retail build:
>
> cd ..\retail
> md ..\retail
> cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" c:\OrexxDev\oorexx -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
>
> Note: once you have issued the CMake command for a build target, you
> should not have to do that again. CMake is pretty good at figuring out
> when things change in the build process and reconfigures on demand.
>
> 4) Build the code
>
> (from your build directory):
>
> nmake
>
> The installer build is a separate build step. Once you have a clean
> interpreter build, issue the following command:
>
> nmake nsis_template_installers
>
> This will build the nsis installer from the build artifacts. Note that
> you do not need to install the interpreter to actually run Rexx. The build
> bin directory is already in the path, so the rexx command is available to
> you at this point.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> I tend to build things without building the installer and just run things
>>> from the build directory
>>>
>> That would be perfect for me
>>
>> At the same time I'm of course also interested in how to correctly build
>> docs. I've posted in the buildteam
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/discussion/buildteam/thread/52d3b56b/>
>> what my current setup is. The doc build works (I've only tested rexxref),
>> but generates literally thousands of FOP warnings/errors. So I wonder if
>> I'd need to setup something differently. I'd be grateful, if you could
>> share your experience regarding docs too
>>
>
> My experience was to rely on David for this :-) I don't know if it is
> possible to do this on Windows or not. I kept a linux virtual machine
> handy for when I needed to build the docs or just relied on David's build
> machine. David had some instructions for how to setup a machine, but I'm
> not finding it right now. Maybe David can chip in with some comments here.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Erich
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How much from scratch? What do you have installed already (svn, cmake,
>>> visual studio of some flavor, nsis, etc.)?
>>>
>>> I tend to build things without building the installer and just run
>>> things from the build directory using a simple batch file that sets up
>>> paths appropriately. That might be simpler for you. Building the
>>> installer gets you involved with issues such as doc locations, etc. I can
>>> share that batch file with you.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Jon Wolfers <sahana...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm, looking for a recent 5.0.0 build for Windows (x86_32)
>>>> I want to fulfil my promise to provide a test case for the resource
>>>> directive.
>>>>
>>>> I have an installer from revision 10820 (06Nov14) taken from the build
>>>> machine, but there have been over 100 commits since then.
>>>> Does anyone have a more recent build for Windows (installer preferred)?
>>>>
>>>> Failing that, can anyone lead me through building for Windows, pretty
>>>> much from scratch?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
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