[Developers] Test windows install procedure

[Johnoel Ancheta]

The build files now sets PATH with mingw path.  This eliminates a step
for the user.
See
http://www.admb-project.org/redmine/projects/issues/repository/revisions/991

User is still able to use existing MinGW.

Updated install.txt

http://www.admb-project.org/svn/trunk/INSTALL.txt

Please update, test install procedure and provide feedback.  Hopefully,
this is the last hurdle and a release branch can be started.



On 4/18/13, Jim Ianelli - NOAA Federal <jim.ianelli at noaa.gov> wrote:
> environment strings are not too difficult to deal with.  Since most uses
> that are interested in compiling should have proficiency to switch paths as
> needed, I think it's good to have the simple approach in the install.
>
> Perhaps as an insurance measure follow these steps:
>
> set oldpath=%path%
>
> then
> set PATH=%CD%\utilities\mingw\bin;%CD%\utilities
>
> and if they wish they can do either of the following:
>
> set PATH=%CD%\utilities\mingw\bin;%CD%\utilities;%oldpath%
>
> or
>
> set PATH=%oldpath%
>
> (the latter wouldn't be particularly recommended for admb...perhaps)
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Johnoel Ancheta <johnoel at hawaii.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> The main problem with this is the shell is now unusable because
>> the PATH is restricted to only two directories.  The user will have
>> to open another window to use other command line programs.
>>
>> On 4/18/13, Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is> wrote:
>> > Sorry, I shaved the PATH a bit too short. It should not only include
>> > g++
>> > but also flex and sed, like so:
>> >
>> >    set PATH=%CD%\utilities\mingw\bin;%CD%\utilities
>> >
>> > Like the man said: everything should be kept as simple as possible, but
>> no
>> > simpler.
>> >
>> > Arni
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Arni Magnusson wrote:
>> >
>> >> The MinGW procedure also crashes on my machine (with different errors
>> >> from Matthew's), unless I truncate my path. So instead of
>> >>
>> >>  set PATH=%CD%\utilities\mingw\bin;%PATH%
>> >>
>> >> I do
>> >>
>> >>  set PATH=%CD%\utilities\mingw\bin
>> >>
>> >> and everything builds fine after that.
>> >>
>> >> Keeping the original path active triggers conflicts between different
>> >> versions of make, different versions of GCC, and other Linux-like
>> >> programs. The most reliable way to build ADMB using MinGW is to
>> >> truncate
>> >> the path to the minimum.
>> >>
>> >> I have committed this change (r987) to INSTALL.txt.
>> >>
>> >> Arni
>> >>
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