Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Installation issues on W2K/Cygwin

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2: Re: Installation issues on W2K/Cygwin (response to 1)
Posted by C. R. Oldham on 05/20/04 06:55 PM
Ted,

I'm not sure how stable AOLserver 4.x is on Windows, but you also have the problem of compiling the AOLserver database drivers on Windows as well.  I have tried this in the past and it just was not effective.  Things may be different now.

The best solution for testing on Windows that I have found is to use VMWare or coLinux to host a Linux virtual machine on the XP machine.  This works really well, and has the extra benefit of providing you with an insulated development environment.

John Sequiera has (still I think) prebuilt VMware images.

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3: Re: Installation issues on W2K/Cygwin (response to 2)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 05/20/04 07:07 PM
Jamie Rasmussen has made an AOLserver Windows binary available at http://empoweringminds.mle.ie/openacs/index.html. While not the latest AOLserver version, it should be recent enough to allow you to test AOLserver/OpenACS on Windows.

Contact Jamie if you need help compiling a more recent version of AOLserver.

C.R., compilation instructions for AOLserver are also available from above link.

/Bart