[Aldor-l] Distributing Aldor

[Bill Page]

Pippijn,

I have not had time to return to building Aldor on my Solaris x86 and
Debian sparc systems, but I just wanted to mention that I did have
some success installing the windows binary version on my Windows XP
SP3 laptop.

http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/aldor.exe

http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/projects_aldor_install.xhtml

Installation went fine with no errors, but I was not able at first to
run the Aldor -gloop bat file. In order to get it to work I had to
edit the .bat files and add a full "C:\program files\path
to\exectuable\aldor.exe" (including the " ). Also it would be more
convenient of the install script would also add the location of these
batch files to the Windows PATH.

One more thing. After getting -gloop and -ginterp to work, I notice
that I could not create executables. The reason is that creating a
binary requires that a C compiler be installed. Since most Windows
users might have the Microsoft C compiler installed, perhaps you
should at a paragraph to your web site about how to download and
install a free version. E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/

I haven't tried Visual C++ 2008 yet. What version of the C compiler do
you use on Windows?

Regards,
Bill Page.