DaveK's law of installation stability

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> 
>>From: Gerrit P. Haase
>>Sent: 12 July 2005 23:24
> 
> 
>>I still wonder why B20 was upadted.  This was the most stable,
>>never broken Cygwin release and I'm still running it without
>>the need to ask for support forever!
>>
>>
>>G.
>>
>>P.S.: I'll tell you where to fetch the famous cygwin-B20
>>       tarball if you ask me to do so ;)
> 
> 
> 
>   I've always kept a copy lying around as well!
> 
>   IIRC, there was also a copy in the cygwin time machine when I was there
> the other day.  [checks]  Yep.
> 
> ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/b20.1/
> 
>   He's even got
> ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/b19.1/

Wow, I was not aware that B20 ever was updated!

I got my copy here:
http://www.1o0.de/wi-links/modula3/Cygwin-b20.exe

It is just 16 MB, but it is an absloute sophisticated one-click-install
POSIX emulation!


They use it to drive their Modula-3 compilers:
http://www.1o0.de/wi-links/modula3/

German HOWTO install Modula-3 on XP:
http://www.1o0.de/wi-links/informatik/praxis/programmiersprachen/modula3/installation/windows/windows.html

Translated shortref from this page:

- Install Cygwin-b20.exe
- copy cygwin1.dll to C:\WINDOWS\System32 !!!
- create C:\BIN
- copy SH.EXE to C:\BIN
- install PM3-BIN.EXE to C:\
- create C:\tmp\

READY

START --> Programs --> Cygnus Solutions --> Cygwin B20
Move around with the usual unix commands and if you find your .m3 files
and the m3makefile call m3build to invoke the compiler.


Isn't this great?
Gerrit
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