In comp.soft-sys.ptolemy, Robert Rozman writes:
--start--
Hello,
after two years since first unsuccess I again tried to compile PTOLEMY
(0.7.2. under NT Cygnus and gcc 2.95 - according to Ptolemy NT
instructions) and again received a lot of errors. I couldn't start
anything.
So, if there is anybody willing to contribute binaries or point to sources
that compile properly would save me out of frustration, that I'll newer see
ptolemy working on my home computer with NT. (I'm so desperate, that at the
Faculty I changed from Debian to Redhat, cause couldn't compile under
Debian also).
--end--
What sort of errors were you having? The NT port in 0.7.2devel is in
flux right now, partly because of the upgrade to gcc-2.95.
In email to you, I said:
> I believe that the current set of sources have a few minor
> problems building under NT with Cygwin and gcc-2.95.1 -
> all of which can be fixed by adding
> #include <stdio.h>
> to a few files
If you let me know what errors you have, then I might have some
guesses. If anyone else wants a shot at the Ptolemy Classic devel
sources, send me email, and I'll tell you how to get it.
Last Christmas, I tried to use Installshield to build an NT Ptolemy
Classic installer, but Installshield kept dumping core, I think
because of the file size.
Prebuilt NT binaries would be rather large, and would need to include:
Cygwin b20.1 + gcc-2.95.1
X11 binaries for Cygwin
Ptolemy, along with Tcl and Octtools
and an X server
I'm not sure about which freely available and redistributable X
servers are available and work. I use Exceed 6.1, and it has some
problems that 6.0 did not have, but Exceed is commercial software, and
thus not redistributable.
Another issue is that the release will be fairly large, and splitting
it up into separate pieces will increase complexity.
Another issue is that getting the environment settings right to ship
prebuilt binaries will be fairly tricky. Using the installer is
probably the right approach, since users are used to an installer, and
the installer is likely to get the bootstrapping right.
Personally, I think that the Linux ports are a better bet than the NT
port unless you have a lot of experience with NT and Ptolemy Classic,
and a fairly high pain threshold :-)
So, I think we need to have a fairly bulletproof and well tested
installer, or the prebuilt Ptolemy Classic NT binaries will likely not
work for some people, and end up annoying them. That is the primary
reason I have not thrown up a half baked binary release.
Ptolemy II is much more well behaved than Ptolemy Classic under NT.
Anyway, let me know what errors you had, and I'll be sure to give you
some feedback.
-Christopher
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