OpenDylan and Visual Studio 2008

Peter C. Chapin

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Jul 25, 2009, 7:41:19 AM7/25/09

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Hello!

I just installed OpenDylan v1.0beta5 on my Windows XP system. I have Visual
Studio 2008 installed. None of the back end options that were offered to me
during the installation were a good match to what I have so I selected
"latest .NET."

I tried building a couple of the samples such as, for example, the Reversi
sample. I'm getting an error from the linker: "fatal error LNK1107: invalid
or corrupt file." This in reference to the file

Open-Dylan\build\dylan\version.res

I'm using Microsoft's link v9.00. Does this mean OpenDylan is incompatible
with the latest MS toolset or is there some other issue. Is there a known
workaround? As it is, it seems like I'm not able to build any programs.

Peter

Hannes Mehnert

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Jul 28, 2009, 4:02:09 AM7/28/09

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Hi Peter,

there are problems with latest MS linker. Try using PellesC
http://www.christian-heffner.de/
instead. I have still a MS Visual Studio 6 installed for
Open Dylan.

Hannes

Peter C. Chapin

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Jul 28, 2009, 6:40:02 PM7/28/09

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Hannes Mehnert <han...@opendylan.org> wrote in
news:6ece50df-8fe1-447b...@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com:

> Hi Peter,
>
> there are problems with latest MS linker. Try using PellesC
> http://www.christian-heffner.de/
> instead. I have still a MS Visual Studio 6 installed for
> Open Dylan.

Okay, thanks for the tip. I was also thinking about trying to set it up on
my Linux machine, although I haven't looked into that at all yet (I don't
even know if that's supposed to work). I'm a little shy about installing
another C compiler just to get a linker just so I can experiment with
Dylan. Still... I've done stranger things!

Peter

Hannes Mehnert

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Jul 29, 2009, 5:51:41 AM7/29/09

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On Jul 29, 12:40 am, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, thanks for the tip. I was also thinking about trying to set it up on
> my Linux machine, although I haven't looked into that at all yet (I don't
> even know if that's supposed to work).

Well, the batch compiler works on Linux, while the IDE is currently
Windows-only.

> I'm a little shy about installing
> another C compiler just to get a linker just so I can experiment with
> Dylan. Still... I've done stranger things!

Yes, it's currently a bit in a bad shape and somebody should fix the
compiler
to work flawlessly with current MS VS linker. There's only missing
manpower.

Hannes

Carl Gay

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Jul 30, 2009, 10:59:40 PM7/30/09

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On Jul 28, 6:40 pm, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, thanks for the tip. I was also thinking about trying to set it up on
> my Linux machine, although I haven't looked into that at all yet (I don't
> even know if that's supposed to work). I'm a little shy about installing
> another C compiler just to get a linker just so I can experiment with
> Dylan. Still... I've done stranger things!

Installing PellesC is straight-forward, and it works very well. Just
do it. :-)

Linux is pretty doable too, but it's a command-line compiler only and
debugging is a bit rough. (i.e., printf)