RE: [ECOS] Installation problems - ECOS toolset on Windows platform

["Andy Voelkel" <andy at bushtaxi dot com>]

>>So, I thought I'd try invoking the configuration tool from a bash shell. I
>>negotiated my way to the directory containing the executable, and invoked
>>it. This time the graphic interface came up, spewed a bunch of text into
>its
>>output window, and closed itself. As best I can tell, many of the error
>>messages contained the string "this package does not have any valid
>version
>>subdirectories".
>>
>Did you set ECOS_REPOSITORY? Within whatever your basic installation 
>directory (/opt/ecos) you should have a shell script ecosenv.sh (or 
>ecosenv.csh). I recommend you run that after starting your bash shell.

Unfortunately, running these files does not help. I have verified that the
environment is being properly modified by issuing a "set | grep ECOS"
command. Interestingly, I accidentally set this variable to the tools/bin
directory at one point, and got a different error message from
configtool.exe when I tried to run it. It said "tools/bin does not seem to
be a repository". It then allowed me to browse to the actual packages folder
(c:\progs\cygwin\opt\ecos\ecos-2.0\packages on my machine) When I selected
this directory, I got the same old barrage of error messages about the lack
of valid version subdirectories, and then configtool.exe quit. 

This makes me suspect that for in fact my packages directory does not in
fact "have any valid version subdirectories". I don't understand this
because it is a fresh ECOS install right off the internet, and at this stage
in the learning curve I'm not even sure I understand the error messages. And
why does configtool quit after issuing them.

Can anyone help with this? I'm getting tired of dorking around and not even
being able to run the most basic stuff.

BTW, I can't find any meaningful references on the importance of using the
ECOS_REPOSITORY variable when using configtool.exe anywhere in the
documentation I downloaded. And the mailing list FAQ on Windows installation
issues seems to be empty. Should I write up an installation FAQ once these
issues are resolved?

- Andy Voelkel



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