Builds for Windows

[Brian Rice]

It is unfortunately too annoying to build Slate's VM on Windows right 
now, due to the compiler bug before version VS2005b.

Is there someone willing to provide a compiled slate.exe as well as 
common dll's for everyone else? I'd be willing to set up a place on the 
website where they could be hosted and do the packaging. Alternately we 
can just link to the provider's site so they can manage it however they 
like.

Of course, this means that customizing the VM is no easier for the 
experimenter, but it should be possible to build .dll's with earlier 
versions of VCC. Am I correct on this?

On Mar 24, 2005, at 8:35 PM, Brian Rice wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2005, at 8:03 PM, Shaping wrote:
>>> Do "make get-alpha". The image actually recorded in the alpha branch 
>>> is out of date. The image at the location in the repository is fine, 
>>> although I need to update it again.
>>>
>>> Note: when I send an "Alpha updated" email, that means you need to 
>>> get fresh alpha images with the makerule.
>>
>> How does this apply if we are using VS2005 beta?
>>
>> Has the naming convention for the vm in the Windows stuff been 
>> settled?  If so, would someone please explain it.
>
> Images are irrelevant in terms of the builds. The vm.h just has to be 
> renamed to slatevm.h as I recall. The project file /should/ do this, 
> but apparently that functionality isn't working right any more. And 
> you shouldn't even need to rebuild unless we announce a VM change 
> (even then, the header rarely really changes).
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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/