Shared Source CLI Essentials

Building Rotor on Windows

First, extract the archiving using gzip and tar. If you use the gzip and tar utilities from http://ftp.gnu.org, you will need to pipe gzip’s output to tar, since this version of tardoes not support the z option for reading compressed archives. (You could also use WinZip to extract the archive, but if you do, make sure that “smart” CR/LF conversion is turned off in the miscellaneous options tab).

    >gzip -dc sscli_20021101.tgz | tar xvf -
    sscli/
    sscli/buildall
    sscli/buildall.cmd
    sscli/clr/
    sscli/clr/bin/
    ... output truncated ...

If you see an error message that states “couldn’t change access and modification times of sscli,” don’t worry. This error occurs with the version of tar available from the http://ftp.gnu.org site and is harmless. When the file is completely extracted, change directory to sscli and run the environment settings batch file:

    >cd sscli
     
    >
    env.bat
    Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 tools.
    (If you have another version of Visual Studio or Visual C++ installed and wish
    to use its tools from the command line, run vcvars32.bat for that version.)
    CLR environment (C:\sscli\clr\bin\rotorenv.bat)
    Building for Operating System - NT32
                 Processor Family - x86
                        Processor - i386
                Build Environment = C:\sscli\rotorenv
                       Build Type - fastchecked

env.bat accepts an optional argument, which can be one of free, fastchecked, or checked. (See "Build Mode,” earlier in this appendix.) Next, run buildall.cmd. This will build the Shared ...