Making shedskin run under windows7

[ippisl]

I tried to make shedskin run under windows 7 using the supplied
compiler(mingw32) , had some problems , here are the solutions.

1. due to some reason(maybe windows access control) , the install.bat
didn't update my path. so i update it by hand using data in the
init.bat .

2. Make.exe had a bug under windows so there's a make.exe here[1] that
solved this bug. it's called "GNU Make 3.82-pololu2.

3. under windows7, the following changes needed to be added to the
makefile to prevent an error(so that make will use windows command
shell, instead of sh.exe) :

UNAME := $(shell uname)

ifeq ($(UNAME), MINGW32_NT-6.1)
SHELL=C:\Windows\win32\cmd.exe
endif

best regards,
ippisl

[srepmub]

hiya,

thanks a lot for this :) yeah, it looks like windows xp is finally
losing its large market share, so I should probably start testing with
windows 7 instead or as well. it's a bit too close to 0.9.2 right now
(hopefully this weekend) to install windows 7 here, but I will give it
a go for 0.9.3 and try out your suggestions.


thanks again!
mark.

[srepmub]

as a note to myself, I should also test with the latest OSX for 0.9.3,
since there were reports shedskin was broken here, too.

[srepmub]

sorry for being a bit slow to react. I did find a windows 7 PC in the meantime, but saw no problems when installing shedskin and compiling/running the hello world test.. did this test already fail for you? are there other people here who use or tried to use windows 7..?

thanks again!
mark.

[srepmub]

is there also anyone who successfully uses shedskin under OSX/lion? please let me know so we can perhaps update the wiki with some useful instructions.

mark.