On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:39:29 +1100, Anton Rolls wrote > Here's a status update: > > Today, roughly following instructions from: > http://code-factor.blogspot.com/2006/11/compiling-factor-on-windows.html > > I have: > - installed MinGW and MSYS > - compiled Factor successfully > - started Factor with http://factorcode.org/images/latest/boot.image.x86 > Factor booted up and started compiling words, but then: > Words calling ``alien-invoke'' cannot run in the interpreter. > Compile the caller word and try again. delegate f > alien-invoke-error-library "freetype" alien-invoke-error- symbol "FT_Init_FreeType" > > - I understand that I also need freetype > http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/freetype-2.1.9-mingwPORT.ta > r.bz2 > > Instructions on how to install > http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mingwPORT > > but to install this I need wget > http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download > > And here's where I ran out of energy... :) > I've failed to understand what exactly mingwPORTs are supposed to > do, other than completely confuse everybody. > > Regards, > > Anton. > > P.S. In the above post, there is *no question*. I am not asking for > anything. > I've just posted it in case anyone would like to comiserate on the > burgeoning > complexity of everything. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys- > and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php? page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
It looks like you are trying to get the zlib and freetype dlls that come with mingw. I would get the ones of the factor site or doug's site. Those worked fine for the compile that I was doing. Also, all of doug's instructions seemed to work. Also, the only difference I encountered; I got the 'full' binary from minsys/mingw as opposed to the network install (The 5.03? older version 40MB download) And I installed 'minsys' and then just copied 'mingw' to the minsys directory as opposed to playing with windows environment variables. C:\projects2\Downloads15\minsys C:\projects2\Downloads15\minsys\mingw (with bin/lib and the mingw stuff) Also, compile factor through minsys as opposed to the windows console environment. Other than that, everything seemed to work. I compiled Factor 0.89 the other day. $ uname -a MINGW32_NT-5.0 1.0.11(0.46/3/2) 2004-04-30 18:55 i686 unknown -- Berlin Brown berlin dot brown at gmail dot com or bbrown at botspiritcompany dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
