World: r4wp

Is like that says: 
.
 is not a command

problem is in CD=./

it doesn't work on windows

it should probably: "CD=cd"
it returns the current path on Windows.

CD = %CD%  
works

so I arrive at the next bug...

C:\DOCUME~1\max\DOCUME~1\GitHub\r3\maker3-make
 is not recognized

is the path correct? maker3-make is an executable? if so it should 
be maker3-make.exe.

It doesn't exist any maker3-make

anywhere

If you can build successfully R3 in Widnows with MinGW, please post 
the procedure on GitHub wiki

Probably it is a missed file on your fork. I didn't build R3 on Windows 
yet. Cyphre can send that file I think.

You can send me the binary directly... :-)

I don't have that binary. I think it's used by Cyphre and it's missed 
on the svn.

I posted an old binary several days ago. Let me build a fresh one.

MaxV, are you running the above from a MinGW shell?

Or just from a plain cmd.exe?

plain cmd.exe

Not sure if that ought to work.

All paths in the makefile use / as path separators.

So better try running from a MinGW shell.

OK, I understood.

(Otherwise, if you absolutely don't want to use a MinGW shell, try 
using CD=.\ or CD=%CD%\ -- the trailing backslash is important.)

I didn't know the MinGW shell, I used it and it worls!
>> system/version
== 2.101.0.3.1

(works)

We could use a separate group to talk about building and porting 
R3. This group is getting a bit polluted.

I have a couple significant changes to make to TRANSCODE. Can all 
interested parties please review http://issue.cc/r3/1915and http://issue.cc/r3/1916
and comment what you think? AFIAK I have used TRANSCODE more than 
anyone else, but we're at the point where more opinions are needed. 
It's low-level, so most people won't be affected by this. They're 
not syntax changes, they're changes in its external behavior.

Brian -- !REBOL3 Building and Porting group created

Where is the GitHub Wiki?

It disappeared!

The http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/index.htmlwiki is not good, you 
can't register or edit.... :-(

MaxV: I think you can edit. I would definitely not replace it with 
the Github one, at least not for docs, which are quite extensive. 
IIRC, you had to be registered on R3 Chat, and then when you got 
some level of access, you could edit docs. There is more to the R3 
Chat, than might be seen from the mostly ugly surface ...

Sorry, but I don't think so. 

A good wiki is a wiki where is easy to register and edit. The one 
on the Rebol.com is not a good wiki.

People will register and use GitHub, so a wiki must be on GitHub. 

If youlike, you may have an "offical" wiki in Rebol, but a living 
wiki is the GitHub.

I can copy all rebol wiki on GitHub, you you want; but please reactivate 
the GitHub wiki!

Don't do the same errors of Rebol 2, where there was a wall between 
people and reboltech.

MaxV: I will gladly let it to Carl to sort out. He was reshaping 
a wiki for nearly 3 months, and there are something like 75K pages 
of content. It is also kind of autogenerated/automated. So - do you 
want to do many things manually?

I'll do it in 24 hours, you have my word!

As Carl said, it's not tto difficult, if you know how to do it.

(a little bit fo wget, a little bit of rebol and my will)

Well, WIP wiki is imo OK, that's all I say. You are wrong if you 
think there are no editors, etc. Those are just higher rank users 
of R3 Chat IIRC. We imo need some consensus on this - do we move 
everything to Github? What about prebuilt products, marketing, etc.? 
What remains on REBOL.com then?

The problem is another, if someone want to add content, he can't. 

Look at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming, it's better 
of the rebol wiki sine everybosy can contribute.

The expert can continue to use the rebol wiki, but the big audience 
must be able to contribute with the GitHub wiki.

MaxV: "The http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/index.htmlwiki is not good, 
you can't register or edit.... :-( " - that is actually not true. 
You *can* register if you want, just say so in here.

aha, sorry, the problem still persists...

Getting a implicit declaration warning while compiling (Ubuntu64) 
for strdup() line 86 and free() line 88 in src/os/posix/dev-stdio.c
Adding includes (stdlib.h and string.h) clears this.

I needed months about Rebol to understand what is altme and how to 
subscribe. Altme is not good. Rebol3 needs to be open also for documentation, 
needs also a public forum, linke Nick one. Please reopen the GitHub 
forum, Rebol 3 needs also common/occaional people tha wants to contribute.

This is open source, otherwise it will not reach a big audience.

MaxV - that's an old song - Altme will be used by those, who want 
to use it, easy as that, no? Yes, public forum should be available, 
but please let's ppl use what they like or are used to. Some of us 
simply prefer IM nature, so we will either use Altme or IRC. That 
does not mean, that we will not participate in a forum, or mailing 
list. I can bet, that if ML was still active, many of us here would 
contribute. I quite miss ML a bit :-)

I want that people will continue to use what they prefer, but Rebol 
misses all the common tools of open projects:
- public forum
- public wiki

The way to eneter in connection with others is too complicated by 
now. GitHub is making all a little easy, so why closing GitHub wiki? 
Leave it open, people will decide if usinig GitHub Wiki or the old 
complicated way to enter in the rebol community.

I don't say to close the Rebol wiki.

I wrote the page to build Rebol3 with mingw (it's complicated), and 
now it disappered! Someone who has a Mac could write his way to bouild 
that, and nobody heeds to ask to rebol.com, nobody has to prove to 
be an expert about Rebol.

Max, the problem is that most web tools actually suck... not because 
their developpers are bad... but because the web, as a platform sucks... 
in all regards.   its slow, super complex, apps break up every other 
month, and even the basic framework on which the web is layers was 
NEVER meant to be used like it, so even that is corrupted to start 
with.  Also, the apps we use keep changing from under our feet, which 
as a user we have NO control, and it gets very tiresome... it seems 
like every other time I log on to any of the bigger web sites, its 
changed, and I'm lost... again.


I have not seen a single altme-like product which I could chat in 
**real-time** with many people in groups as we do here.   its always 
either super slow, very slugish, insanely complex or insanely dumb. 
 


The only platform which has some appeal so far is the Stack Overflow 
engine, which has a pretty good architecture... but man would it 
be sooo much better if it wasn't built over web technologies...