Fw: Re: What do I need to build on Win2K?

[Timothee Besset]

That sounds like a problem with your MSVC configuration, and not really cons 
related. Look for a VCVARS32.BAT file in your VC6 installation. This has the 
environment variables that need to be defined if you want to use VC from the 
command line.

TTimo

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:09:44 -0700
Franz Amador <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been experimenting with Cons on Linux for a while and get along
> well with it there, but I can't get to first base with Cons on Win2K.
> It won't run any of its regression tests.  I've tried both Cons 2.2.0
> and Cons 2.3.0.  I have two environments on Win2K I'd like to build
> in: MSVC from the "DOS" command prompt, and MSVC from a cygwin shell.
> Neither work now, and the errors suggest basic "you don't have your
> environment set up right" problems.  See below for the errors.
> 
> Is there anywhere I can look for info on how to set things up?
> 
> thanks,
> Franz
> 
> 
> Here's what I've seen so far.  I show the errors for only the first
> test,
> but all the others look the same.  When I build from the "DOS" window, I
> get this:
> 
>    C:\cygwin\home\famador\cons-2.3.0\test>perl cons-test -x ..\cons
> t0001.t
>    cons-test:  C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe  -I . t/t0001.t
>    No directory specified for -I.
> 
>    cons-test:  '..\cons' passed 0 tests, failed 1:
>                    t/t0001.t
> 
> I'm using ActiveState perl 5.6.1 in this case:
> 
>    C:\cygwin\home\famador\cons-2.3.0\test>perl -v
> 
>    This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
>    (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
> 
> 
> When I try it from the cygwin shell window, I get this:
> 
>    address@hidden ~/cons-2.3.0/test
>    $ ./cons-test -x ../cons t0001.t
>    cons-test:  perl  -I . t/t0001.t
>    cc -c foo.c -o foo.o
>    cons: failed to execute "cc" (No such file or directory).
>    [...]
> 
> I presume this happens because cygwin perl claims to be running on Unix,
> so Cons tries to use cc even though I don't have it installed.  My
> cygwin
> perl is 5.6.1:
> 
>    address@hidden ~/cons-2.3.0/test
>    $ perl -v
> 
>    This is perl, v5.6.1 built for cygwin
>    (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
> 
> Forcing it to use MSVC doesn't work, again I presume because Cons still
> thinks it's running on Unix, so it doesn't have MSVC's INCLUDE path
> set right:
> 
>    address@hidden ~/cons-2.3.0/test
>    $ ./cons-test -x ../cons CC=cl t0001.t
>    cons-test:  perl  -I . t/t0001.t
>    cl /nologo /c foo.c /Fofoo.o > nul
>    cl /nologo /out:foo.exe foo.o
>    LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "LIBC.lib"
>    Command line warning D4024 : unrecognized source file type 'foo.o',
> object file assumed
>    [...]
> 
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