Woo hoo! Great idea, Dave. This might be a good chance to try out a recorded Google Hangout session. But only if it makes sense!
On 18 July 2013 17:42, Nick North <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm interested. All my work is Windows-based so I'm keen to extend the > Windows support community for CouchDb. > > My timezone is GMT, and preferred communication mechanism is email as it's > not easy to guarantee times when I'll be available for skype/irc/etc. > Recorded walkthroughs might also be interesting. > > I've been trying the Glazier instructions on a Win8 VM (and also a Win2012 > Server VM, but with less success, so put that aside). I got as far as > the "Start a UNIX-friendly shell" section, where running shell.cmd throws > out an error for every blank line in shell.sh - I'm not sure if this is > significant or some UNIX/MS-DOS line ending problem. But after that it's > unclear to me which directory I should be unpacking the Erlang distribution > to, and there is no werl directory, which I feel the shell script should > have created, so it feels as if something may have gone wrong for me in > this section. Currently I'm stuck here, and not sure what the directory > structure should look like before the "Configure and Build Erlang/OTP" > section. > > Nick > > > On 18 July 2013 16:48, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'd like to use 1.4 to get a few more people up to speed on how the > > windows build process works**, with the longer term aim of removing > > myself as a critical bus factor for the project, and having a group of > > Windows-friendly people to work on the roadmap towards Couch+Merges, > > where we can ditch most of my current approach and move to erlang > > releases and simpler/better tooling. Yay! > > > > Here's what you need: > > > > - reply to this thread so I know you're interested > > - include your TZ ; http://s.apache.org/tz1 is useful > > - how you like to walk through the process > > eg if you want a G+ hangout, skype call, prefer irc, email… > > > > - any recent windows box that has SDK 7.1 installed (no XP please) > > - you don't mind installing cygwin *and* mingw and some other stuff added > > to it > > - follow this http://s.apache.org/couchdb-glazier-docs > > - please report any embarassing fails to this thread > > > > You need ~ 12 GB disk space for a full install & all bits, but minimum > > RAM and only a single core. > > > > ASF committers are welcome to sign up for a free MSDN licence (no > > strings or costs attached) and you'll get a free ec2 micro equivalent > > instance in the azure cloud. Pretty good deal -- you can even run > > linux on it! > > > > A+ > > Dave > > > > ** where fun and work are closely related to your desire for pain and > > self-inflicted punishment > > > -- NS
