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[cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows


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  • From: r.britten at auckland.ac.nz (Randall Britten)
  • Subject: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:14:24 +1300
Hi Lucian

The setup tool is designed to either setup from a pristine Windows install,
or on an install where MSVC, the Windows API and Cygwin are already setup,
or variations of that. However, the tool still requires further testing.
As far as I know, it has only ever succeeded on a pristine Windows install.

Regards,
Randall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-tools-
> developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of Lucian Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2010 3:21 p.m.
> To: A list for the developers of CellML tools
> Subject: Re: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
>
> * Randall Britten <r.britten at auckland.ac.nz> [2010-11-18 01:33] writes:
> > Hi Lucian
> >
> > Andrew is quite busy with his PhD at the moment, so I think you will
> only
> > get a comprehensive reply from Andrew in a day or perhaps a few days,
> but I
> > had a brief mail discussion with him, and he suggested a few
> alternatives
> > that you could try:
> >
> > 1) Use the setup tool he created for setting up a windows environment
> for
> > building the CellML-API:
> > http://cellml-api.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/cellml-api/win32-build-
> setup/.
> > Note that it is still a bit rough, and requires more testing, so if you
> do
> > try this, be prepared for retrying a few times, probably preferable if
> you
> > have pristine VM images on stand-by. If you do, it will help us finish
> it
> > off, which will make life easier for developers in future.
>
> Does this mean you don't recommend running this on an actual version of
> Windows?
>
> > 2) If you want to avoid using MSVC, and only use cygwin, then you will
> have
> > to build xul-runner on cygwin from source, since Windows xul-runner
> binaries
> > distributed by Mozilla are usually built using MSVC.
>
> Well, this is sure to be simplicity itself!
>
> > 3) Change your app to use the new "TeLICeMS" (available in "head
> revision"
> > of source code repo), which will remove the xul-runner dependency. The
> work
> > on xul-runner support was part of the OpenCell project, but our group
> is no
> > longer working on the OpenCell project, and the new OpenCell project is
> not
> > based on xul-runner. So this is probably the best long term option,
> since
> > it means improves maintainability of the CellML support in your
> application
> > over the next few years. A pain in the short term though.
>
> Hmm, yeah, that would be nicer. It would mean re-writing every single
> line of my CellML-dependent code, so I think this probably won't happen
> now (as I'm trying desperately to get this out the door and out of my
> life). But it's nice to know that future generations won't have to
> experience the same pain as I ;-)
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Lucian
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