Re: SableVM on Windows (newbie)

Patrick Wright wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm one of the developers for the LGPL Flying Saucer project, a
> pure-Java XHTML/XML/CSS2 renderer (http://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net).
> 
> I'd like to start trying to compile and run our code under
> SableVM/Classpath. We have dependencies on AWT, as we draw to a
> Graphics2D canvas directly; not sure how much of that code will work.
> We currently use Swing for forms, but that should be pluggable and not
> necessary for regular pages.
> 
> I am running Windows 2000. I have downloaded sablevm-classpath-1.11.2
> and have Cygwin installed--but have no idea how to get started
> (probably typical for a Windows user). The install instructions say to
> run "configure" to start, but under the Cygwin console, configure
> isn't recognized as a script. ("bash: configure: command not found")
> Also tried renaming it to configure.sh but that didn't help.
> Sorry--has been awhile since I used UNIX-like tools.

Hi Patrick,

I don't know about the details of the windows port, but...

You need to do:

$ ./configure

not just

$ configure

'.' is your current directory, and unless you put it in your path (using 
a command like "export PATH=.:${PATH}", you can't just execute programs 
in the current directory by typing their names.  Note that it generally 
isn't desirable to have '.' in your path, the default makes sense.

If you google, you should be able to find some beginner bash tutorials. 
  Bash is the command interpreter that executes the commands you type at 
the prompt, as well as scripts written into files.

Cheers,
Chris

P.S.  If you install an IRC client you can get help on #sablevm sometimes...