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

[Luis R. Izquierdo]

My autoexec.bat is as follows, actually:

SET HOME=C:\Swarm-2.2
SET SWARMHOME=C:\Swarm-2.2
SET SWARMDIR=C:\Swarm-2.2
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\Swarm-2.2\bin;C:\CYGWIN\BIN;

with \Swarm-2.2\bin ahead of the cygwin things in my PATH.
I correct this just in case someone looks at the previous message to install
Swarm-2.2.
Sorry about that.

----- 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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