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Building / Compilation Instructions for the Win32-OpenACS System

This page shows how the Win32-OpenACS has been built/compiled. Hopefully they can be of some help for people willing to try to undertake a similar endeavour.

Take Note

These instructions are not complete, they just provide some hints on how to compile and build the Win32-OpenACS system. Please do not send any question on these instructions nor on the compilation/build process, because they will not be answered.

Common Instructions

This is the common algorythm/workflow used to build each single compoment.

• Get the sources - you can find the sources on the net or use the ones contained in the Win32-OpenACS distribution. 
• Locate the “win” build folder
• Modify/Correct as required the makefiles and the source codes - the changes/corrections to be applied depend on the actual version of the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Compiler in use; the Win32-OpenACS distribution contains the sources that have been modified to be compiled my Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 C++ Compiler
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver install
• Copy all the *.exe, *.dll and *.manifest files into c:\aolserver\bin
• Copy the *.lib files into c:\aolserver\lib

TCL

• Extract/Unzip the TCL sources under c:\tcl8.5.1
• Go in the directory c:\tcl8.5.1\win
• Enter in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=C:\aolserver install

TK

• Extract/Unzip the TK sources under c:\tk8.5.1
• Go in the directory c:\tk8.5.1\win
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.5.1. INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=C:\aolserver install

tDom

• Extract/Unzip the tDom sources under c:\tkDom-0.8.2
• Go in the directory c:\tkDom-0.8.2\win
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.5.1. TKDIR=c:\tk8.5.1 INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=C:\aolserver install

XOTcl

• Extract/Unzip the XOTcl sources under c:\xotcl-1.6.0
• Go in the directory c:\xotcl-1.6.0\win
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver xotclshells
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=C:\aolserver install
  • c:\aolserver\bin\tclsh85t installWin.tcl

libpq

• Extract/Unzip the PostgreSQL sources under c:\postgresql-8.3.0
• Go in the directory c:\postgresql-8.3.0\src\interfaces\libpq
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f win32.mak INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver
  • nmake -f win32.mak INSTALLDIR=C:\aolserver install

Thread

• Extract/Unzip the Thread sources under c:\thread265
• Go in the directory c:\thread265\win\vc
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.5.1 INSTALLDIR=c:\aolserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.5.1 INSTALLDIR=C:\aolserver install

Tcllib

• Extract/Unzip the Tcllib sources under c:\tcllib-1.10
• Go in the directory c:\tcllib-1.10
• Execute
  • \aolserver\bin\tclsh85t installer.tcl

Aolserver

• Extract/Unzip the Aolserver sources under c:\aolserver-4.5.0
• Go in the directory c:\aolserver-4.5.0
• Execute in sequence
  • \aolserver\bin\tclsh85t nsconfig.tcl
  • (edit as necessary the various files you might need to change, e.g. ./include/ns.mak
  • nmake
  • nmake install

Good luck!