Re: Forward: Swarm won't work on windows NT because of path problem

[Mike Gallagher]

Thanks Paul, I appreciate your time. I have embedded answers following each
question. As a note, I was never told / asked by the swarm install to re-start
my machine.

Mike G.

"Paul E. Johnson" wrote:

> Dear Mike:
>
> I'm forwarding this to swarm-support because I have no sure answer, but
> I bet one of the other windows users will.

Thanks.

>
>
> I'm also thinking of that part in the FAQ that says I could never get
> Swarm to work on any drive but C. Now you are a member of the fraternity
> :)  Quite a few students here say it works for them on d:\ no trouble.

<rant on> I really fuss at that kind of restriction. I am never sure whether
that restriction, to drive C: only, is an indication of programmer ignorance
or laziness. It certainly indicates that they have not considered the users.
<rant off>

>
>
> Anyway, did you do the step of creating c:\bin and copying sh.exe from
> cygnus in there?

I did not have to. The install, I am not sure whether it was Cygnus or Swarm,
did it for me.

>
>
> I also had trouble in NT trying to install swarm as the administrator
> and then running it as a user. I trust you don't have that problem?

I am running as the user that did the install. Later I will try it as other
users. Probably have to set up some kind of config file.

>
>
> If you do not belong to swarm-support, let me know, I'll keep an eye out
> for an answer.

I do not belong.

>
>
> Paul Johnson
>
> Mike Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> > I've just started trying to get acquainted with SWARM. I am (trying to )
> > runing it on a Pentium Pro, Win NT 4.0, sp5.
> > I installed cygnu, accepting the default placement at C:\cygnu, although
> > that is not where I really wanted it. Then I installed SWARM in
> > F:\swarm. It contains several directories. I added the directory called
> > "working" and unzipped / extracted the directories from
> > swarmapps-2_0_1_tar into that directory. Yes, I created a directory
> > C:\tmp. Sure wish I could point at the temp directory for the
> > system(sigh).
> >
> > I then started the swarm terminal window. It did  open in the directory
> > f:\swarm. I cd to heatbugs and then type make.
> > It returns the following error:
> > /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/sh.exe //f/swarm/bin/libtool-swarm --mode
> > link gcc -g -O2 -L//f/swarm/lib -rpath //f/swarm/lib  -o heatbugs.exe
> > Heatbug.o HeatSpace.o main.o HeatbugModelSwarm.o HeatbugObserverSwarm.o
> > HeatbugBatchSwarm.o  -lswarmdll -lobjcdll
> >  The system cannot find the path specified.
> >  The system cannot find the path specified.
> >  ' does not exist, dropping itlib
> > Obviously I left out a step. Can you help?
> >
> >  I ftp'ed the full.exe from the Cygnus site and the swarm-2_0_1.exe from
> > the ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/ site. Did I get the correct files?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike G.
>
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