Chris I had a look at your easy D snapshot.
downloaded and ran on a windows 2000 Pro install and got errors immediately on trying to run the console . Looks like some sort of permission problem.
Think its mostly self explanatory except for ease and comfort I use rebuild on unix rather than dsss build ,it saves having to enter each "D" program in the config file.

Text console output is attached What am I doing wrong?

Ty Tower Wrote:

> Chris I had a look at your easy D snapshot.
> downloaded and ran on a windows 2000 Pro install and got errors immediately on trying to run the console . Looks like some sort of permission problem.
> Think its mostly self explanatory except for ease and comfort I use rebuild on unix rather than dsss build ,it saves having to enter each "D" program in the config file.
> 
> Text console output is attached What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Shell setup for Digital Mars D Compiling and Debugging
> build software: dsss build [-g] main_file.d (-g for debugging)
> debug software: ddbg exe_file.exe
> change which drive you're on: [Drive Letter]:\
> eg. C:\ to change to C drive
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> (C) Copyright 1985-1999 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> dsss build C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d
> DSSS config error: unrecognized line '[C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d]'.
> 
> tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> rebuild C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d
> 
> tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> SliderTest.exe
> 
> error box was "not a valid win32 application"
and in


and also it said "access violation"  in the console window


Also while you are there I looked at your site but it seems you have moved server again and I did not see anything on the cheque entry project there . Is there any progress or is it dead?

Ty Tower wrote:
tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> dsss build C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d
DSSS config error: unrecognized line '[C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d]'.

I'm not sure but I think you get that error because you also have a dsss.conf file in the same directory that doesn't contain "[C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d]". I think I've got similar errors. Either use "dsss build file.d" or use a dsss.conf file, there seems to be a conflict if you use both in the same directory.

Ty Tower wrote:
> Ty Tower Wrote:
> 
>> Chris I had a look at your easy D snapshot.
>> downloaded and ran on a windows 2000 Pro install and got errors immediately on trying to run the console . Looks like some sort of permission problem.
>> Think its mostly self explanatory except for ease and comfort I use rebuild on unix rather than dsss build ,it saves having to enter each "D" program in the config file.
>>
>> Text console output is attached What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Shell setup for Digital Mars D Compiling and Debugging
>> build software: dsss build [-g] main_file.d (-g for debugging)
>> debug software: ddbg exe_file.exe
>> change which drive you're on: [Drive Letter]:\
>> eg. C:\ to change to C drive
>> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-1999 Microsoft Corp.
>>
>> tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> dsss build C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d
>> DSSS config error: unrecognized line '[C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d]'.
>>
>> tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> rebuild C:\dmd\mystuff\SliderTest.d
>>
>> tytower@WINDOWS:C:\> SliderTest.exe
>>
>> error box was "not a valid win32 application"
> and in
> 
> 
> and also it said "access violation"  in the console window
> 
> 
> Also while you are there I looked at your site but it seems you have moved server again and I did not see anything on the cheque entry project there . Is there any progress or is it dead?

Yeah, I haven't gotten that migrated yet.  No, I haven't made any progress on that yet.  All I found were a few input errors that caused some strange stuff to persist in the input boxes, but otherwise it functions fairly well.  I hadn't heard anything in a while, and then I became distracted by other things, etc.  Thanks for the reminder.

Ty Tower wrote:
> Chris I had a look at your easy D snapshot.
> downloaded and ran on a windows 2000 Pro install and got errors immediately on trying to run the console . Looks like some sort of permission problem.
> Think its mostly self explanatory except for ease and comfort I use rebuild on unix rather than dsss build ,it saves having to enter each "D" program in the config file.
> 
> Text console output is attached What am I doing wrong?

I found that when I try building something and I'm not currently in that directory that it fails to build.

The problem building with rebuild is that all of the libraries (DWT,
Arclib, etc.) are with DSSS and are included to rebuild when DSSS runs.
    It sounds to me like you tried to build a DWT app without DSSS, and
for some reason the build with rebuild didn't fail outright (which I
think it should have) and then you tried to run it, and it didn't link
against DWT as it should, and so it was just a few kilobytes of
assembler short of a full program.  Or it was malformed by a confused
linker, etc.  DSSS could perhaps be a little more forgiving on Win32
platforms when you don't play with it *just* right, but given the
alternatives (building by hand, with makefiles, etc.) I'm more than
willing to accept it the way it is.  :-)