Difficulties following toolchain tutorial

[Daikath]

Im not a hardcore programmer, but I did succesfully make one game using as3 and flixel a few years ago.

However just setting up the development tools is stumping me, thankfully I found http://dcemulation.org/?title=Compiling_KOS_on_Windows thanks to BlueCrab on irc.. but I still got stuck.

I follow it along until I get to

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$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cadcdev/kallistios /opt/toolchains/dc/kos

I insert it using shift+insert and then try to go to the newly created directory... but it isn't there.


I'm quite stumped. It's not like you're using a valuable programmer. But I'm still a huge sega fanboy and would at least like a little about programming for it. If any of you could tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd like to do better and your help would be appreciated.

[BlueCrab]

You need to include the / on it, otherwise you're trying to change to subdirectory of whatever directory you're in (so, what you're trying to do is effectively go to /c/opt, which is non-existent). Try doing "cd /opt/toolchains/dc/kos" (without the quotes) instead.

[Daikath]

Thanks for the reply.. but the entire opt folder just isnt there in my c drive, despite me doing.

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$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cadcdev/kallistios /opt/toolchains/dc/kos

It just isn't making the folders at the end of the clone command :-s.

[BlueCrab]

Oh... wait, it doesn't look like git clone did anything, because there should be output from that command... Try doing this:

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mkdir -p /opt/toolchains/dc
cd /opt/toolchains/dc
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cadcdev/kallistios kos

If the "git clone" still doesn't do anything, then I'm guessing somehow you don't have git installed? Did you run the "pacman" command that is on that page first? If not, run that and try again from there. You need that command to be run successfully in order to install the things you'll need for building KOS and making it work.

Also, the /opt directory will not be directly in your C:\ drive, but rather will be a subdirectory of wherever you installed MSYS, I believe. So, if MSYS was installed in C:\MSYS, then the actual path to /opt would be C:\MSYS\opt, assuming things still work as they did the last time I messed around with MSYS (more than 10 years ago, probably).

[Daikath]

I'm still not getting a output from the git clone command .



subsequent directories such as /kos/ arent made either.

Sorry for being such a bother. I might know a bit about programming but all this unix stuff is very foriegn to me. I appreciate the help a lot.

[BlueCrab]

Try just running "git --help" (without the quotes) and see if it does anything.

[Daikath]

nothing happens with i go git --help....

Does this mean there is something wrong with my ming unix thingy?

[BlueCrab]

The "pacman" command, when you ran it, did it report any errors or anything? Also, did you make sure to copy/paste the whole thing as one long line (it probably appears as two lines in your browser, but it really should be all done as one line)?

My best guess is that git isn't installed, so try doing this first and then try "git --help" again:

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pacman -Sy git

[Daikath]

There are some warnings for specific files trying to get using that command... is it that the place where git is loaded isn't complete?

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Win@Win-PC MINGW32 /opt/toolchains/dc
$ pacman -Sy git
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 mingw32 is up to date
 mingw64 is up to date
 msys is up to date
warning: git-2.11.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) git-2.11.0-1

Total Installed Size:  24.92 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                     [#####################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                   [#####################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                        [#####################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [#####################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                [#####################] 100%
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::I18N.3pm.gz
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::SVN::Editor.3pm.gz
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::SVN::Fetcher.3pm.gz
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::SVN::Memoize::YAML.3pm.gz
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::SVN::Prompt.3pm.gz
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::SVN::Ra.3pm.gz
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/man/man3/Git::SVN::Utils.3pm.gz
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling git                             [#####################] 100%

Win@Win-PC MINGW32 /opt/toolchains/dc
$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cadcdev/kallistios kos

Win@Win-PC MINGW32 /opt/toolchains/dc
$

[BlueCrab]

Those warnings don't look important, at least I don't think they do...

Hrm... That would indicate to me that it is installed... Weird...

[AtariOwl]

I had problems at this stage too.

First question is are you on C: drive. When i tried to install msys and KOS to D for space reasons, it didnt work... specifically, git didnt work correctly, much as you are seeing.
Second question.. are you looking in the right place for opt? Can you do a quick pwd to check?

I attempted using github to clone and copy kos but in the end that was less successful than just installing everything on c and following the wiki.

[Bouz]

Maybe try disabling your antivirus? Maybe also try to see if your git executable is stuck somewhere... (running ps or your windows Task manager)

[Chilly Willy]

Not sure if it applies to Windows, but in linux, if you can't make a directory in /opt, it's usually because you don't have permission. I usually change the mode permissions for /opt to 777 to allow any user to do anything in /opt... which is how it should be. The default for most distros, including Ubuntu, it to restrict most operations to root only.

If I had to guess how this applies to you, maybe you're running in a user account that doesn't have permission to create directories where mingw is running.