Embedded System with Yaws on Windows

[Wally Cash]

Hi Rudolph,

You are not alone with this issue. I have also been exploring the 
possibility of deploying Yaws on Win32 without Cygwin in recent days.

I've been reviewing the code and searching the Yaws and Erlang list 
archives, looking/hoping for a solution short of the "surgery" that you 
mention. So far, the answer (if there is one) eludes me. But I'm not the 
brightest guy in the world... Hopefully someone in the group can help us. 
If not, I'll attempt to develop and post a "Cygwin Free" patch. I'm sure 
that we're not the only ones who desire this capability.

Regards --Wally

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:27:23 +0200, Rudolph van Graan 
<rvg@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi again all!
>
> I've been trying to convince yaws to run on windows with an embedded
> erlang system and several issues came up... Hope you can help me out
> here as always...
>
> 1. I don't want to install OTP and Cygwin on a client's machine, only
> my "embedded" application, that consists of an erlang distribution
> built with "target_system". How do I make yaws run, without major
> surgery to yaws.erl and yaws_config.erl to remove references to the
> setuid and getuid driver? How would one usually go about running yaws
> without cygwin?
>
> 2. Can someone give me some pointers on how to use the start_erl.exe
> program in OTP? I've read the man pages and I understand the different
> parameters, but I just can't get it to run with a command line similar
> to this:
>
> start_erl  -boot start.boot +++ -reldir c:\erlang\releases
>
> I don't think I need any ".data" files do I?
>
> 3. Is there a Windows version of "target_system.erl" that builds me a
> single zip file from .rel and .app files? The linux one works well, but
> I don't think it'll be suitable for windows, as it copies the linux vm
> and knows not about windows erts? I think I can just copy all the \bin
> stuff [erl.exe, beam.dll, etc etc] and the tweak start_erl to use my
> .boot file and the linux version of my /lib, i.e. the one made with
> target system?
>
> Does anyone have some almost foolproof set of instructions on how to
> make a windows system as I need? I've briefly looked at SAE, but the
> documentation seems to suggest it is not yet working for windows. I
> don't think I want an SAE version though, standard one is ok - such as
> the one built by target_system.
>
> Rudolph van Graan



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