Brent,
This is very interesting.
> I've just started playing with Poplog recently. I
> noticed that no installer was available for the
> current Windows build, so I took the opportunity to
> play with the Inno Setup tool (a great Open Source
> installer tool available at
> http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php.) I'm using the
> ZIP file
> (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/winpop/pop15-53.zip)
> as the source material for the installer.
I guess you did not notice that there's an openpoplog sourceforge
project, initiated by Jeff Best described here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/openpoplog.html
I have just added a note about it in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/winpop/AREADME.html
I should have done that long ago.
As far as I know the two main people involved so far are Jeff (in
Brighton England) and Nico Aragón (in Madrid).
Jeff has been transferring sourcefile fixes and extensions posted
at the the bham site for the linux/unix versions to the windows
source tree at sourceforge. So your version will be slightly
out of date.
You may have duplicated some of their work -- or possibly gone
beyond it. Most of the discussion of this has not been posted to
pop-forum/comp.lang.pop but to the much smaller poplog-dev email
list, to which I can add you if you wish (or subscribe to
poplog-dev via majordomo@cs.bham.ac.uk, as you did to pop-forum).
Nico has been working especially on trying to add graphics to
poplog in a new way, building up from what he is most familiar
with, whereas Jeff has been focused mainly on getting poplog to
run under cygwin on windows using X window graphics.
In fact linux poplog already seems to work perfectly on windows
under vmware, though that may cost too much for most people. The
hybrid-sheepdog demo using probabilistic roadmaps illustrated
here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/fig/simagent
was done by Marek Kopicki for his first MSc mini-project, using
poplog + vmware + XP on his laptop because he could not get the
new nvidia card to work properly under linux and he got fed up
switching between windows and linux.
> A single-file installer can be found here:
>
> http://www.debian.org/~bfulgham/poplog/windows
> (It's called setup.exe).
Thanks. If/when you think its in a suitable state to be added to
the bham poplog distribution site I'll be happy to copy it over.
> I'm disappointed that I couldn't figure out how to
> build VED for windows. It wasn't included in the
> original files.
I think you will find that you have to create an additional
saved image called startup.psv
Then running basepop11 +startup.psv should start up pop11 in a
Ved window. At least I think that's what happens in the poplog
v15.5 for windows.
The makefile in the pop/pop directory may help.
There was a lot of discussion about this in the poplog-dev email
list. I could try to hunt it down if you wish. Or maybe someone
else will supply the information.
> Please let me know if you have any problems with the
> build.
I never use windows, but may later be able to try it on my wife's
machine, but not for the next few days owing to pressure of other
things.
Thanks.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
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