Help needed to get CHSM binary

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- Marc Hillman
  
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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 1:38 PM

I would REALLY like to evaluate CHSM: Concurrent Hierarchical Finite State Machine, but despite my best efforts I cannot build this from source. I'm a user, not a developer. The author has made it pretty clear he won't provide a binary, so how/where do I get one? I don't know where to even ask the question as the sourceforge project forums seem empty. Can anybody advise how tp get a binary for Windows ? I only want to draw statecharts, not generate code from them.

Alternatively, blow by blow instructions on how to build from scratch on Vista would be most useful, but sounds complicated.

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- Cesar Rabak
  
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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 2:03 PM

Marc Hillman escreveu:

If this is your goal, then you're on the wrong path with CHSM. It is a textual language system, not a graphical environment.

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- Rich Webb
  
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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 2:30 PM

Repurpose an older MS Windows box as a Linux platform?

Or, one option that may lead to a native MS Windows binary executable would be to install the MinGW and MSys packages. These are designed to provide a minimal GNU environment within Windows that can be used to go through the usual build steps: ./configure, make, and make install.

In theory, all that should be required would be to download and build the prerequisites and then the final target. In practice, it's rarely that straightforward but who knows, you might get lucky! ;-)

At which point you can volunteer to be the maintainer of the Windows binary distributions...

If you do go the MinGW + MSys route, install MinGW first (take the defaults but don't install the MinGW version of make) and then install MSys. Even if CHSM doesn't build properly, you'll still end up with a useful set of utilities and a much more powerful command line shell than Windows provides.

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- Tim Wescott
  
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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 3:52 PM

Somewhere out there is a Linux distro that runs under Windows. _Not_ Cygwin -- it's a 'real Linux' whose HAL talks to Windows instead of hardware.

And there's Cygwin, of course.

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- David Brown
  
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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 4:15 PM

Are you thinking of coLinux? If so, coLinux is not a distribution but a modification of the Linux kernel so that it talks to Windows at a low level, rather than to the hardware. You can get hard disk image files with various pre-installed distributions. This is perhaps the "lightest" way to run Linux on a windows machine (in terms of ram and processor overhead). However, it is significantly easier to use something like VirtualBox (a free download) and install a Linux virtual machine.

Cygwin occupies a middle ground between MinGW + MSys, and a virtual machine. For my usage, it is getting squeezed out. It used to be necessary to use cygwin if you wanted a windows gcc binary (and especially if you wanted to build one yourself, rather than just use a pre-built binary). But improvements to MinGW, additional utilities in MSys, and mingw-friendly changes to gcc source code have made cygwin-less gcc binaries the norm. Similarly, virtual machines used to involve significant costs (for the virtualisation software, and for the extra ram), and run poorly. With modern hardware, virtual machines are cheap and easy.