[Swift-user] Swift 0.95 RC6 on Windows

[Jonathan Ozik]

Thanks Mihael! 
I'll pass this on. Do you happen to remember if both the new and old configuration files can be used together? I mean including both -properties and -sites command line arguments. 

Jonathan

> On Jul 3, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> There were two problems:
> 
> One was compiling swift on Windows (i.e. running "ant dist" in the swift
> directory on a windows machine). This is now fixed, but should not
> affect you if you are using a binary distribution.
> 
> The second was an out-of-date _swiftwrap.vbs. I fixed this also and
> committed to SVN. You can either compile 0.95 from sources, or,
> alternatively, remove the following lines from libexec/_swiftwrap.vbs:
> 
> expectArg("k")
> KICKSTART=getOptArg()
> 
> Things should work after that.
> 
> Regarding the new config mechanism and sysinfo="INTEL32::WINDOWS", on a
> cursory look at the code, it does not seem to be supported. You will
> have to use the old mechanism (i.e. sites.xml) for now.
> 
> Mihael
> 
> 
>> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 16:09 -0700, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>> 
>> We need to update the quick start guide. There is a missing bit if you
>> are running on Windows. The details are here:
>> http://swift-lang.org/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_running_on_windows
>> 
>> That said, I don't think we routinely test swift on Windows, and I
>> haven't maintained it, but I will give it a shot and see if it needs any
>> fixes.
>> 
>> Mihael
>> 
>>> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 17:18 -0500, Jonathan Ozik wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I have two colleagues that are trying to run Swift 0.95 RC6 on Windows using the included swift.bat Windows script. They haven’t been successful yet. Trying the quickstart guide http://swift-lang.org/guides/quickstart.html and the hello.swift script under examples/swift/misc/ they see the following error:
>>> 
>>> Swift 0.95 RC6 swift-r7900 cog-r3908
>>> RunID: 20140703-1433-7iq5x697
>>> Progress: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:33:49-0500
>>> 
>>> Execution failed:
>>> Exception in echo:
>>>   Arguments: [hi]
>>>   Host: localhost
>>>   Directory: hello-20140703-1433-7iq5x697/jobs/6/echo-6nydmzsl
>>>       exception @ swift-int.k, line: 530
>>> Caused by: null
>>> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/bin/bash" (in directory "\var\tmp\hello-20140703-1433-7iq5x697"): CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
>>> Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=267, The directory name is invalid
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
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