[Orca-users] ORCA install on Windows NT

[Sean O'Neill]

At 02:00 PM 1/24/2003 +0100, ida3248 at vip.cybercity.dk wrote:

>Hello All
>
>I am trying to install ORCA on a windows NT machine.

Kewl - I don't think I've heard of anyone doing this.

>I couldn't find the binaries on www.orcaware.com

And you won't.  The Orca installation is written expecting a UNIX-like 
environment.

>I have downloaded the lasteset tar.gz archive, but can't do configure and make

Unless you have a Microsoft compiler you are going to have lots of 
problems.  Partial perl -V output from Cygwin per:

   Compiler:
     cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE 
-DNO_STRICT

Notice cc says "cl" and not 'gcc'.

As such, you can't install CPAN modules expecting to be compiled without 
it.  The GCC that comes with Cygwin won't work with Cygwin Perl for 
installing Perl Modules - at least in my attempts at making it work.  You 
might be able to get the ActiveState Perl to work but you are going to 
manually install the modules by hand using that CPAN-like tool that comes 
with ActiveState Perl - I think.  But I can't remember what the tool is called.

>I have also tried the URL given in the document hacking
>
>http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91
>
>but can find ORCA under the software listed

The page is specifically for Subversion.  It has nothing to do with Orca 
per se.  Blair is using subversion has his software change management 
package - I'm not a developer and I probably said that wrong.

Like I said, I don't recall anyone doing this.  Not saying its not possible 
but it will take some effort.


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Sean O'Neill