Re: [Sbcl-devel] Re: Win32 testers required

[Brian M. <br...@ma...>]

On Dec 24, 2005, at 3:30 AM, J.C.Roberts wrote:

> Thanks Christophe,
>
> It seems my "Kitten of Death" now awaits me. ;-)
>
> More than anything I was trying to highlight the need for a small  
> README
> file with a few instructions in the next zip archive.
>
> Details on the differences between "sbcl.core" and "cold-sbcl.core"
> might be helpful as well.
>
> Merry Christmas!
>
> jcr

Hi J.C.,

This release hasn't been packaged as a normal release would, so there  
is no README of any sort here.

One of the things that would need to be investigated for a 'real'  
Win32 release is how to install SBCL. Right now we use a shell script  
to copy SBCL, and this also invokes make to install some files. It's  
safe to assume that a random Windows system will have neither of  
these, unlike every other platform we release for right now.

The thought that springs to mind is to distribute a .zip file  
containing an installed SBCL, and provide a .bat file which sets  
SBCL_HOME to the path of that directory before launching the runtime.  
If SBCL_HOME is set correctly on an installed SBCL, it will find the  
core file automatically.

The cold core file is not part of a normal release. It is generated  
during SBCL bootstrapping and is missing CLOS. You can safely ignore  
it for now.

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Brian Mastenbrook
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