2008/7/15 Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Will Coleda via RT schrieb: >> >> On Tue May 13 05:21:32 2008, rurban wrote: >>> >>> 2008/5/13 Andrew Whitworth via RT <bugs-parrot- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> >>>> is this ticket (#51944) resolved? I don't see any outstanding todo >>> >>> items >>>> >>>> here that need to be considered further, and the submitted patch >>> >>> has >>>> >>>> already been applied. Can we close this, or is this a placeholder >>> >>> for us >>>> >>>> to further improve cygwin documentation? >>> >>> The list os build preq's is required. >>> >>> Well, the tip for smoke to do cpan Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix >>> could be added. But this should be added in the general README for all >>> platforms. >>> >>> Then platform specific is only that pg.t fails due to missing loadlib >>> exceptions >>> and that cygwin perl-5.10.0 fails to send the smoke report. perl-5.8.8 >>> works ok. >>> >>> I'll send that as extra README_cygwin.pod patch. >> >> ENOPATCH. =-) >> >> Can someone with cygwin access go through the README once more so we can >> get this ticket closed? Thanks. > > Ok, since there's now almost an official parrot package, the updates are > easy. > Patch attached. > > The parrot-0.6.4-1 packages are in the works.
I found a better link for the SDL link. Yesterday the http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/ site was down, but now it is up again. Please use the attached revised patch instead. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
Index: README_cygwin.pod =================================================================== --- README_cygwin.pod (revision 29483) +++ README_cygwin.pod (working copy) @@ -6,37 +6,66 @@ =head1 SYNOPSIS -Parrot builds out of the box under Cygwin. Some tweaks are needed for -different names of dynamic loading of some dll's. +Parrot builds out of the box under Cygwin. +Some tweaks are needed for different names for the ffi to some dll's. +See L</loadlib DLL versioning> +There are official cygwin parrot packages in preparation. +See L<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-07/msg00016.html> + + parrot, libparrot0, libparrot-devel, parrot-perl6, parrot-languages + =head1 Packages -You'll need the following Cygwin packages to build Parrot. +You'll need the following Cygwin packages to run and build Parrot. -=over 4 +Runtime requirements: -=item gcc + libreadline6 ncurses libintl8 libicu38 libgmp3 libgdbm4 -=item make +Optional requirements: -=item perl + libglut3 xorg-x11-base xorg-x11-bin-dlls libpq5 openssl -=item subversion +Build requirements: + gcc make perl parrot readline libncurses-devel libgmp-devel + libgdbm-devel pcre-devel libglut-devel + +Optional build requirements: + + libicu-devel openssl-devel + +CPAN packages: + + L<Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix> if you want to run the language smoke tests + with C<make languages-smoke>. + + L<Test::Base> for some APL language tests. + +=over 4 + +=item Cygwin subversion and perl + If you use SVN to get a copy of Parrot, you should use the Cygwin SVN and not the TortoiseSVN client to avoid build errors. Similarly you will need Cygwin Perl rather than ActiveState or Strawberry Perl. -=item ICU +=item icu -This is no official Cygwin package yet. However, icu4c-3_8 builds out of the -box on Cygwin. - - http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/3.8/icu4c-3_8-src.tgz - Note that ICU is now optional, you can build Parrot without it, by not installing it or asking Parrot to ignore it (C<--without-icu>). +=item SDL + +SDL references F<cygSDL-1-2-0.dll>, which is only in cygports +L<http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/> + +=item aio + +libaio-devel "Linux-native asynchronous I/O access" is not available +for cygwin, and as the name says will never be :) + =back =head1 BUILD @@ -53,14 +82,12 @@ =item Makefile tuning -rename libparrot.dll to cygparrot.dll, create an interim libparrot.dll.a +rename libparrot.dll to cygparrot-0-6.dll and create an interim libparrot.dll.a -fix the blib/lib PATH issue +=item loadlib DLL versioning -=item DLL versioning +Use cyg*-1.1.dll instead of lib*.so.1.1 names for loadlib, the FFI. -cyg*-1.1.dll instead of lib*.so.1.1 - Thanks to the L<Windows DLL Hell / http://> and the impossibility of file hardlinks, windows dll names are versioned, so the loadlib function or the various pir's needs more logic. @@ -89,6 +116,6 @@ =head1 HISTORY -Last updated: 1 June 2008 +Last updated: 15 July 2008 =cut
