[elephant-devel] Re: Elephant 0.2

[Ben]

over the next few days i'll try to get my hands on a computer with
vc++, and try to get it to run.  i don't know where, exactly.....

B

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Bill Clementson wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
>> thanks for the blog post about the tutorial.
>
> thank you for creating elephant and making it
> available to others!
>
>> if you
>> have time i'd
>> like to try to help you work out your win32
>> problems.  i see no reason
>> why it shouldn't work, though i'm no win32 expert.
>>
>> what lisp and C compiler are you using?  where does
>> the failure occur?
>
> I have the win32 versions of acl, lw and clisp on my
> pc. I don't use gcc on win32, I use MS VC++. I used
> the MS VC++ compiler to compile the Berkeley DB
> without any problems. I tried to compile
> src/libsleepycat.c specifying the
> C:\bin\db-4.2.52.NC\build_win32\Release directory as
> the library directory (there wasn't a /lib/ directory
> as seemed to be indicated in your makefile) and
> C:\bin\db-4.2.52.NC\dbinc as the include directory
> (there wasn't a /include/ directory either). The
> compile produced a lot of missing dependencies so I
> just gave up as I didn't have time to search around
> for the missing things. I also didn't know how to
> translate the gcc compile & link options for the MSVC
> compiler.
>
> I'm going to be at a conference and in training most
> of the next 2 weeks, so won't have much time to try
> alternative compile options; however, if you have any
> ideas fire them at me and I'll try them when I get the
> opportunity.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
>
>
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