building Cog

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> On 11 July 2011 03:25, John McIntosh <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Igor, I am reminded that about 8 years back building the Mac VM took
>> about 20 steps. That I found was about 19 steps too long for an
>> "average" user to follow.
>> No disrespect to the folks attempt to build this, but when you have 20
>> steps then there is just too much chance for a human to fail or for
>> the other third parties to
>> throw cold water on you.
>>
>> Unfortunately solving this can take a while, I'm sure I struggled for
>> a month or more refactoring the process into a more simple number of
>> steps.
>> So at each point ask youself what can go wrong, and why do I need to
>> have something manual here? Should there just be a sole command to do
>> it all?
>>
> Look, there are only 4 steps for installing mingw on windows
> (http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/building-the-vm-from-scratch-using-git-and-cmakevmmaker/)
>
> And JJ Stevens refers to step 5.. so i really don't have any clue what
> he's doing.
>
> As for simplifying even more.. One could package everything in big fat
> archive and make it downloadable.
> But then it is not 'from scratch' , it will be 'from fat archive'. :)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>

>
> Igor I think you have to separate out the folks who want the
> one-click-experience from the folks who want to know all the steps
> involved.
> You and I fit into the "know all the steps"
> But oddly and this at times seems strange to me, there are people who
> want to do the build, yet from the 'one-click-experience'
> Those from my past experience out-number us.
> So yes, one fat archive and punch GO.
>

>
>
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> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Igor Stasenko <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> As for simplifying even more.. One could package everything in big fat
>> archive and make it downloadable.
>> But then it is not 'from scratch' , it will be 'from fat archive'. :)
>>
>
>
> yes, please.
>
>

> On 11 July 2011 04:24, JJ Stevens <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Igor Stasenko <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> As for simplifying even more.. One could package everything in big fat
>>> archive and make it downloadable.
>>> But then it is not 'from scratch' , it will be 'from fat archive'. :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> yes, please.
>>
>>
> no, im not going to do that. MSys is a separate project which are not
> managed by mine. as well as cmake and git.
> There is already prepackaged files.. why i should duplicate effort and
> do it myself?
>
>
>
> i tried to install everything from scratch.. it works.
>
> Download this:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110530/mingw-get-inst-20110530.exe/download
>
> Here what i have installed:
>
> Installing:
>      mingw-get
>      pkginfo
>      C Compiler
>      C++ Compiler
>      MSYS Basic System
>  MingGW developer kit
>
> Using pre-packaged repository catalogues (20110530)
>
> Destination location:
>      g:\MinGW
>