build_bootstrapper.md

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What to install

• There's a good list of tools to consider in the Camelbox Tools Installer NSI file
  • Also, the Windows_Software\Camelbox\support_apps folder has a large assortment of software
    • Sysinternals http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545046
• Unix Utilities for Windows; this package has a lot of the external utilities you will need when you run the CPAN shell or tools on Windows
  • Install to `C:\camelbox``
  • You'll have to rename some of the UnxUtilties binaries so they don't conflict with the Windows equivalents (list of renamed UnxUtilities)
  • Or use https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32?
  • Or build a custom version of the *NIX tools?
• MinGW
  • The MinGW software is now installed from a centralized installer, from which you can install extra packages if you wish (mostly compilers and make)
  • Camelbox only needs the "MinGW base tools" and "g++ compiler" packages
  • MinGW Installer downloads
  • Install to C:\camelbox\
• dmake
  • downloadable from CPAN
  • Install to C:\camelbox\
  • The dmake.exe file and startup folder should be placed in the C:\camelbox\bin folder
  • Make sure the paths to gcc.exe, and dmake.exe (and it's subdirectories) are set in the system's environment
    • Windows 7:
      • Right click on Computer
      • Choose Properties
      • Click on Advanced System Settings
      • Click on the Advanced tab
      • Click the Environment Variables button
      • In the System variables box, scroll down until you get to the PATH environment variable, then double click to edit it, and add the path to gcc.exe and dmake.exe to the end of that line
        • Use semicolons to separate path components, and quote characters to quote any paths with space in them
  • LZMA and 7zip
    • See the build start page for info on how to use lzma on the command line
  • wget & curl

Where to install

• Utils
  • C:\utils or C:\apps
• Build tools
  • C:\build

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