Help to tester : Build Ros on WIN98 PC

[Gge]

Hi all,

Buiding Reactos on a Win98  machine does noy work anymore ( at least for 
me) . It was working several ago.

The make clean fails as well with these error messages :

-----------------------------
netstat: [CLEAN]
ping: [CLEAN]
route: [CLEAN]
telnet: [CLEAN]
whois: [CLEAN]
regtests: [CLEAN]
tshared: [CLEAN]
RM]      /include/roscfg.h
trop de paramètres - buildno.exe
  ==== Too many parameters
fichier introuvable
  === File not found
trop de paramètres - wine2ros.exe
trop de paramètres - winebuild.exe
trop de paramètres - bin2res.exe
wpp: [CLEAN]
unicode: [CLEAN]
C:\Svn\reactos>mingw32-make
--------------------------------

Anybody may confirm ?

Thanks
Gerard

[Alex Ionescu]

Gge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Buiding Reactos on a Win98  machine does noy work anymore ( at least 
> for me) . It was working several ago.
>
> The make clean fails as well with these error messages :
>
> netstat: [CLEAN]
> ping: [CLEAN]
> route: [CLEAN]
> telnet: [CLEAN]
> whois: [CLEAN]
> regtests: [CLEAN]
> tshared: [CLEAN]
> RM]      /include/roscfg.h
> trop de paramètres - buildno.exe
>  ==== Too many parameters
> fichier introuvable
>  === File not found
> trop de paramètres - wine2ros.exe
> trop de paramètres - winebuild.exe
> trop de paramètres - bin2res.exe
> wpp: [CLEAN]
> unicode: [CLEAN]
> C:\Svn\reactos>mingw32-make
>
> Anybody may confirm ?

Hi,

Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with 
relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however using 
Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this problem..

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

[Gge]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Gge wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Buiding Reactos on a Win98  machine does noy work anymore ( at least 
> > for me) . It was working several ago.
> >
> > The make clean fails as well with these error messages :
> >
> > tshared: [CLEAN]
> > RM]      /include/roscfg.h
> > trop de paramètres - buildno.exe
> >  ==== Too many parameters
> > fichier introuvable
> >  === File not found
> > trop de paramètres - wine2ros.exe
> > trop de paramètres - winebuild.exe
> > trop de paramètres - bin2res.exe
> > wpp: [CLEAN]
> > unicode: [CLEAN]
> > C:\Svn\reactos>mingw32-make
> Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with
> relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however using 
> Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this problem..
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu

Thanks Alex,

The workaround you proposed is working fine

Regards
Gerard

[Hartmut Birr]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with
> relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however
> using Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this
> problem..

The windows 98 problem has nothing to do with a bug in binutils.
Make.exe uses cmd to process all pipe commands on windows, but windows
98 doesn't have a cmd program. You should copy command.com to cmd.com or
cmd.exe.

- Hartmut

[Alex Ionescu]

Hartmut Birr wrote:
> Alex Ionescu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with
> > relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however
> > using Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this
> > problem..
>
> The windows 98 problem has nothing to do with a bug in binutils.
> Make.exe uses cmd to process all pipe commands on windows, but windows
> 98 doesn't have a cmd program. You should copy command.com to cmd.com or
> cmd.exe.
> Hartmut

Hi,

Our old makefile would split the creation of each object and then build 
all the objects together. However, because of binutils' retardedness, it 
is unable to generate proper relocation data unless the image is built 
from a single object. So Filip made this change, but this breaks win9x 
since the command-line (which now includes all the objects) is too large.

Notice the error message "Too many parameters"

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

[Wesley Parish]

command.com's kind-of underpowered - I suggest copying the cmd.exe from a 
ReactOS LiveCD to your hard drive and using it instead.  Or compiling the 
cmd.exe in the source tree as a Windows program.

I've found the LiveCD cmd.exe to work quite satisfactorily as a command 
interpreter in Win9x, even though it's not recommended.  And much better and 
faster than command.com!

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:04, Hartmut Birr wrote:
> Alex Ionescu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with
> > relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however
> > using Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this
> > problem..
>
> The windows 98 problem has nothing to do with a bug in binutils.
> Make.exe uses cmd to process all pipe commands on windows, but windows
> 98 doesn't have a cmd program. You should copy command.com to cmd.com or
> cmd.exe.
> Hartmut
>
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