DM,
I've setup a couple of private GitLab runners for Linux, but I was curious is there a way to build the sbbs-windows and sexpots without commercial software? Excuse my ignorance, but I couldn't find a dependency guide for creating a CI/CD runner that will build those 2 successfully.
sbbs-windows and sexpots can be built with Microsoft Visual C++. While it's a commerical product, they do have free versions available for download that work perfectly fine for that.
That said, sbbsctrl.exe and a few other small GUI executables require C++Builder 6 which is an old/deprecated commercial product (by Borland) with no real "free" workable equivalent.
Re: Windows - GitLab Runner
By: Digital Man to WitNik on Mon Jan 25 2021 07:56 pm
sbbs-windows and sexpots can be built with Microsoft Visual C++. While it's a commerical product, they do have free versions available for download that work perfectly fine for that.
That said, sbbsctrl.exe and a few other small GUI executables require C++Builder 6 which is an old/deprecated commercial product (by Borland) with no real "free" workable equivalent.
I saw these dependencies on the wiki, but I'm not quite sure the steps required for configuring a proper runner. I'll keep hacking at it and looking at runner logs. I've seen things like mingw and some other packages that are leveraged on the window builds on the main project runners. I was just curious if you had some docs that you could direct me to for what I'd need to throw at a windows box for doing automated builds. Eventually, I was hoping to start looking closer at some of the C source in my forked gitlab project.
This is by no means important. I was just curious.
sbbs-windows and sexpots can be built with Microsoft Visual C++. While it's a commerical product, they do have free versions available for download that work perfectly fine for that.
That said, sbbsctrl.exe and a few other small GUI executables require C++Builder 6 which is an old/deprecated commercial product (by Borland) with no real "free" workable equivalent.
Re: Windows - GitLab Runner
By: Digital Man to WitNik on Mon Jan 25 2021 07:56 pm
sbbs-windows and sexpots can be built with Microsoft Visual C++. While it's a commerical product, they do have free versions available for download that work perfectly fine for that.
That said, sbbsctrl.exe and a few other small GUI executables require C++Builder 6 which is an old/deprecated commercial product (by Borland) with no real "free" workable equivalent.
Thank you! Can I just install the VS Build Tools? Or do I have to install the whole IDE?
If so, which are the required options?
sbbs-windows and sexpots can be built with Microsoft Visual C++. While it's >> a commerical product, they do have free versions available for download that >> work perfectly fine for that.
That said, sbbsctrl.exe and a few other small GUI executables require
C++Builder 6 which is an old/deprecated commercial product (by Borland) with >> no real "free" workable equivalent.
Thank you! Can I just install the VS Build Tools? Or do I have to install the whole IDE? If so, which are the required options?
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