Re: Windows. Can't live with it. Can't shoot it.

[Luis R. Izquierdo]

Hi!

I have a laptop with Windows ME and Swarm-2.2.
I describe the way I installed Swarm-2.2, just in case:

I installed Cygwin 1.3.6 (whole package) and Swarm-2.2.
Then, I typed from cygwin bash shell:

mkdir /Swarm-2.2
mount c:\\Swarm-2.2 /Swarm-2.2

and I copied .bashrc in the proper place. (Cygwin/home/user/)

#!/bin/bash
export SWARMHOME=/Swarm-2.2
PATH=$SWARMHOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
export LESSCHARSET=latin1
export TMPDIR=/tmp

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
cd

I modified my autoexec.bat by inserting:

SET HOME=C:\Swarm-2.2
SET SWARMDIR=C:\Swarm-2.2
SET SWARMHOME=C:\Swarm-2.2
SET PATH=C:\CYGWIN\BIN;C:\Swarm-2.2\BIN;%PATH%;

And that's it.

The SocialImpact model compiles and runs apparently fine but I get the same
error that Paul describes when I hit the quit button.
After hitting the quit button, there is always a popup that says it caused
an error in OBJC.DLL. Before this popup I sometimes get two popups that say
there was an error in MOUSESRV.DLL (I don't know why they sometimes appear
and they sometimes don't).

Another applications with similar problems are, for instance:

SimpleObserverBug (Java version)
SimpleObserverBug2 (Java version)
SimpleObserverBug3 (Java version)
All of them present errors in JAVASWARM.DLL (and sometimes in MOUSESRV.DLL)

If you want me to test more applications, please, feel free to ask. I'll be
glad to be of help.
Thanks a lot,
Luis





----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul E. Johnson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:29 PM
Subject: Windows. Can't live with it. Can't shoot it.


> I have a laptop with  RedHat Linux that dual boots into WIndows ME
> because sometimes people have projectors that only work with Windows.  I
> think Linux is the best and I am sorry to have to waste time going into
> Windows just to suit technological limitations, but that is the cross I
> bear.
>
> I have installed Cygwin and downloaded a Swarm-2.2 pretest, and have
> some trouble installing it.  I'm following along with the instructions I
> have in the FAQ that I cobbled together from User comments
> (http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/SwarmOnlineFaq.html#3.1)
> When I try
>
> mount 'd:\\Swarm-2.2' /Swarm-2.2
>
> I get a warning that Swarm-2.2 does not exist, and then I'm not able to
> get any response from commands like
>
> ls /Swarm-2.2
>
> In fact, after I make that mount, I can't get any response from tab
> completion to finish the directory name.
>
> There's obviously something wrong with my system, the new cygwin, or the
> install instructions.
>
> So If I unmount Swarm-2.2, and just create a sym link to put Swarm in
> its place, then things seem to be OK:
>
> ln -sf d://Swarm-2.2/  /Swarm-2.2
>
> ANyway, I was able to set SWARMHOME=/Swarm-2.2 and compile one
> application and run it after that.
>
> However, I run into weird problems.  I get quit-time crashes with some
> programs that don't crash in Linux.
>
> For example, here is an application showing variations on the Social
> Impact model (B. Latane, A. Nowak), a pretty well known piece of social
> psychology. This piece of code has lots of generalizations built into
> it, some of which are documented :)
>
>
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/MySwarmCode/SocialImpact/SocialImpa
ct-20020530.tar.gz
>
> In Linux it compiles and runs fine with the new Swarm, but with windows
> I get crashes when I hit the quite button. The popup says it caused an
> error in libObjC.
>
> I was thinking that this SocialImpact model might be a good one to
> distribute as a teaching exercise, possibly in the Swarm tutorial, but
> obviously that's a non-starter if people who use WIndows see all kinds
> of bozosity.  I don't think the market model in the tutorial package
> does much good for us and would like to put something in its place, so I
> have some incentive to try to work this out.
>
> Would somebody who has a working windows Swarm-2.2 system care to try
> that file and see if it compiles and runs?
>
> In the past I have run into portability problems from Linux to Windows
> because I failed to enable destroy notification on graphs and that
> caused a tcl/tk crash, but this program is not making that mistake, I
> don't think....
>
> --
> Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
> Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
> University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
> Lawrence, Kansas 66045                FAX: (785) 864-5700
>
>
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