bk nested build resources for Windows?

[hstenn]

Does anybody have a copy of the nested(?) resources needed to build bk from source code on Windows boxes?

I'd like a copy.

[MMI]

Gosh — it’s been a long time. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think you’re looking for the Windows “shell” plugin (the thing that provides Bitkeeper entries in the (file) explorer menus). It looks like we never put that onto github and I don’t recall if there was an actual reason or it was just oversight. Now building BK itself on Windows was “just" a matter of having an msys2 environment that had a make and a gcc. I’m not using windows at all these days but I do recall that there’s been a bunch of change in the msys world that might make recreating that build environment a challenge. So I guess the question circles back to you… what resources are you looking for?

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[hstenn]

Hi Georg, We just want a "full" current bk client for Windows. An executable is no longer available on the published link.

What I recall is that when we try to run a build on Windows, the build tries to download additional pieces (I don't recall if they're nested repos or if BAM is involved), and the machine where those were hosted is no longer available.

I don't know if the "machine is down" problem can be easily fixed or not. I'll probably be heading to the Bay Area in mid-December or perhaps early January. I've offered to host this stuff in my rack there, or host existing gear in my rack. As I get a bit closer to my trip I'll reach out to Larry to see if he's interested.

[wscott]

OK I uploaded the contents of C:\build after a win32 build of bk to the last release data.
https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/releases/download/bk-7.3.3/bk-win32.zip

It should have all the pieces that are trying to be downloaded. See if you can get a build working with this. Then we can figure out how to reproduce it and where to host it. My suggestion is to make you a maintainer for bitkeeper-scm on github and create a win32-env project.

I sent this data the last time someone wanted to fix the Windows build.