[Developers] Big changes in Revision 1438

[John Sibert]

Hi Jon,
Thank you for your patience in testing this stuff. It can be onerous in 
windows.

Regarding the "nasty problem with MinGW" that you mentioned, I may have 
encountered something similar.

I was trying to install admb on my wife's new windows 7 machine and the 
procedure ran smoothly until it started to build the libraries. As soon 
as it started to compile the first source file, the system popped up an 
error window titled "g++" containing the error message "There is no disk 
in the drive. Please insert a disk in drive \Device\Harddisk2\DR2." 
Further experimentation revealed the error window any time g++ starts. 
So it appears not to be anything to do with admb; it is an windows/mingw 
issue.

Searching for a solution was pretty fruitless. I lot of know-nothing 
responses to similar questions and BS remarks from microsoft flacks 
about how important solving the problem is to microsoft. But the 
responses pointed to usb drive issues.

So I'm wonder if this is the "nasty problem" you mentioned, and if so, 
how it was solved.

Cheers,
John


John Sibert
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu HI (GMT-10)
808-294-3842

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On 12/05/2013 11:17 PM, Jon Schnute wrote:
>
> I’ve tested revisions 1444 and 1447 on Windows 7 using Msys and MinGW, 
> obtained independently from the Internet. The build process worked in 
> both cases with no problems. Also, the executable files and scripts in 
> ..\build\dist successfully converted .tpl files to .exe files.
>
> In the process, I discovered a nasty problem with MinGW that stems 
> from a bug in Windows. It will occur if you connect and disconnect a 
> USB drive before using MinGW.
>
> I’m planning to write installation instructions that document exactly 
> what I’ve done, along with a warning about the potential MinGW problem 
> and its resolution. I’ll circulate this document when I have a draft.
>
> I should add that Rowan Haigh, using the official QuickStart procedure 
> on revision 1444, encountered the problem with “banner.cpp” that I’ve 
> described in earlier email. When we have the opportunity, we’ll check 
> into this further and send a bug report if we can reproduce the problem.
>
> Again, thanks to everyone for your good work cleaning up the code.
>
> Jon
>
> *From:*developers-bounces at admb-project.org 
> [mailto:developers-bounces at admb-project.org] *On Behalf Of *Johnoel 
> Ancheta
> *Sent:* December-05-13 1:32 AM
> *To:* developers at admb-project.org
> *Subject:* [Developers] Big changes in Revision 1438
>
> Hi all,
>
> The ADMB build files have again been reworked and improved. After getting
>
> feedback,
>
> * the build files have been simplified a bit more
>
> - Dave Fournier
>
> * works with Rtools (but not with Rtools->make)
>
> - Jon Schnute
>
> * should build in Windows if Msys or Rtools are in the system PATH
>
> A lot of time and effort was spent by everyone to test and develop
>
> the build scripts.
>
> Please test the installation by following documentation in
>
> http://www.admb-project.org/buildbot/documentation/
>
> Changes and QuickStart pages are in the the directory.
>
> Thanks to everyone who participated in the testing.
>
> Johnoel
>
>
>
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