Re: attempting to install Moto on Windows

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On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 11:27  AM, adam smith wrote:

>
> I am very intrigued by Moto and have been trying to install it on my 
> Windows XP computer but have hit a few snags. I see in the archives 
> that someone else had gotten it to work at least partially under 
> Windows and am wondering if someone on the list has some documentation 
> they could share. If not, I will continue to chip away at it, and if 
> I'm successful, I will post documentation to the list, and could also 
> put the binaries somewhere.
>
That would be great! The user who got the farthest was Michal 'Cyb.org' 
Pena although I'm not sure exactly how far that was.

> Here is what I have been able to figure out so far. I have been trying 
> to compile version 0.19 with apache and mysql support:
>
> 1. need to use cygwin
> 2. need a 1.3.x version of apache, not 2.x!
> 3. need 3.23 version of mysql? (not 4.x)
>
4.x should work, especially with the changes included in 0.19.0 ... not 
that I've tried it personally :) But it should work.

> I have tried installing with both apache and mysql options, only 
> mysql, and neither, and have run into error messages with each try.
>
> It may be that I should have apache and mysql installed under cygwin 
> as well.

This could definitely be the case

>  Maybe that's obvious to everyone but me, but I already had them 
> installed under windows proper, and I was hoping to just be able to 
> point to them and have it work. Also, it seems the configure script 
> needs to find apxs, and it doesn't seem to be there in windows apache. 
> So, probably my next step will be to try this approach and see what 
> happens.
>
> I haven't investigated the mysql issue yet.
>
> Any help is appreciated. As I get more insights, I will share them.
>
> adam

What I might recommend is to first try configuring / building without 
apache or mysql. This will give us all a better idea of how portable 
the language core itself is. Specifically, src/moto/dl.c and 
src/codex/sharedmem.c may be hard to port. Should you be able to get 
that to compile and install (and 'make test') the apache and mysql 
configuration should fall into place without too much of a headache.

-Dave
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