Re: winXP

[Derek Piper <dcpiper@indiana.edu>]

	I worked on it briefly a while, for a local Windows AG node, but did 
run into problems (ended up installing the beacon on a Linux machine on 
the same switch as the AG node). To compile it, I used a minGW build 
environment that sucessfully compiles a Linux and Windows Gtk 
application I was writing.
	I'll try the latest source and give it another try.

	Derek

Andrew Daviel wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Mitch Kutzko wrote:
>
>
> > Hi, Rosario -- The Beacon is a Perl script, supported by a C library and
> > the makefiles and autoconf machinery neccesary to build and install the
> > library.
>
>
> > If you install a WinXP-compatible version of Perl to your machine, and make
> > sure the required Perl modules are all available:
>
> ..
>
> > If you can get all that put together, then Beacon should run fine.
>
>
> Note "supported by a C library".
>
> This means you need a C compiler, not just Perl, plus you need "make",
> and I imagine the right kind of glue that will compile loadable Perl
> modules. This is IMO much more work than just installing a couple
> of CPAN modules and going "perl Makelfile.PL ; make install", and
> not something I would care to try.
>
> But if you succeed, I've no doubt the entire multicast community will be
> ever so grateful ... :-)
>
> BTW, Ivan Judson made a Python package still available at
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson/common-1.0.win32-py2.3.exe
> but I never got it to work properly (I'm not that good with Python, or
> Windows for that matter ..)
>
> (message dated 19 Oct 2004 on the ag-tech list)

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