Re: Complilation problem v2.8.1 (Windows XP)

On Sat, 2004/12/11 (MST), <yylim6-/[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not familiar with the complilation process of the
> source codes. I have tried many times but it just
> won't succeed. For your information, I am using
> Microsoft Windows XP.

Unfortunately, I do not think you can build Polygraph 2.8 on Windows  
without extra work.

> I need to use Web Polygraph 2.8.1 to replay URL traces
> which is not available in version 2.7.6. Is there
> anywhere I can find the binary installer for Microsoft
> Windows (W2K)? I would really appreciate it if you
> could prepare a binary version.

You have a few options, including:

	- Use a supported OS such as Linux or FreeBSD.
	  FWIW, recent FreeBSD and a few Linux distributions can be installed
	  in about an hour, without much Unix knowledge. Perhaps you have a
	  friendly Unix person that can assist you on site?

	- Try installing Cygwin environment on Windows and build
	  Polygraph under that Unix-like environment. I do not know how
	  difficult that would be.

	- Wait for some kind person to post a W2K Polygraph binary or
	  otherwise share it with you. Please note that while making
	  Polygraph to compile on Windows should not take long, it does
	  not have a GUI interface and extra effort may be required to
	  make it perform as well as on Unix OSes. The latter is one of
	  the reasons we do not pre-make W2K binaries any more.

	- Pay the Factory or somebody else to port Polygraph 2.8 to W2K,
	  with or without Windows-specific optimizations.

HTH,

Alex.