[Aldor-l] Distributing Aldor

[pip88nl at gmail.com]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:32:08AM -0400, Bill Page wrote:
> 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.

That is a bit strange, because the (latest, created 02:30Z last night)
installer adds an environment variable ALDORROOT which is used by the
aldor executable. The full path is being used as a fallback (but I
thought %0\..\aldor.exe would do that, doesn't it?). Adding them to the
PATH variable would be no problem, except that I am worrying about that,
too, not working, due to some issues your installation has with setting
ALDORROOT.

> One more thing. After getting -gloop and -ginterp to work, I notice
> that I could not create executables.

Indeed, and currently, I don't have a reliable way to build the native
versions of the lib{aldor,axllib,algebra}. I will take care of this in
the near future. (Currently, I am moving.)

> 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,

Not really. I doubt any normal windows user will have such a thing.

> 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?

I *can* do that, but the way aldor currently works, it can only use the
compiler it was built with. As I currently use the Microsoft Visual C++
compiler version 9 (2008), that paragraph should mention Visual Studio
Express, but if I ever wanted to use the mingw crosscompiler (I have
already successfully built aldor with that and ran it on wine for
testing), then they need to install the mingw native compiler. Should I
change these semantics and allow the user to define the compiler being
used?

Regards,
Pippijn
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