Hey all,

What is required to update a Win32 Synchronet installation to latest CVS? Are there prebuilt snapshots somewhere? If I have to compile it myself, can I do it with the current version of Visual Studio?

I swear I've done this before, but it was a good few years ago and I remember nothing.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-McSteve

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Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Mcsteve to All on Sun Dec 07 2014 08:43 pm

Hey all,

What is required to update a Win32 Synchronet installation to latest CVS? Are there prebuilt snapshots somewhere?

Here (rebuilt daily): ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_dev.zip

If I have to compile it myself, can
I do it with the current version of Visual Studio?

You don't have to, but you could.

digital man

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Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Digital Man to Mcsteve on Sun Dec 07 2014 08:00 pm

Here (rebuilt daily): ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_dev.zip

Alright, I think I'm getting it. Executables in sbbs_dev.zip, and most everything else in sbbs_run.zip.

I guess I make sure my backups are up to date, extract everything except the cnf/cfg files over the top of my installation, and manually merge in any updates to the INI files and other customized files, eh?

Thanks for getting back to me.

-McSteve

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Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Mcsteve to Digital Man on Sun Dec 07 2014 11:25 pm

I guess I make sure my backups are up to date, extract everything except the cnf/cfg files over the top of my installation, and manually merge in any updates to the INI files and other customized files, eh?

You got it.

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Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Mcsteve to All on Sun Dec 07 2014 08:43 pm

What is required to update a Win32 Synchronet installation to latest CVS?

You should be using MSVC2013 Express, it's free, get it from microsoft.com.

I swear I've done this before, but it was a good few years ago and I remember nothing.

Backup your SBBS folder (JIC)
Pull the src files from CVS,
install MSVC2013Express,
Browse to .\src\sbbs3 using a command prompt.
Run the release.bat file
?????
Profit!

(the built exe's and dll's will be in separate folders off sbbs3, just copy them over the files in your \sbbs\exec folder.)

Oh, if you haven't before you should run >jsexec update.js from the sbbs exec folder, it just checks to make sure all your JS files are in the right folders.

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Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Mcsteve to Digital Man on Sun Dec 07 2014 11:25 pm

Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Digital Man to Mcsteve on Sun Dec 07 2014 08:00 pm

Here (rebuilt daily): ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_dev.zip

Alright, I think I'm getting it. Executables in sbbs_dev.zip, and most everything else in sbbs_run.zip.

I guess I make sure my backups are up to date, extract everything except
the cnf/cfg files over the top of my installation, and manually merge in
any updates to the INI files and other customized files, eh?

Updating anything from the sbbs_run.zip would be optional. Probably the more important files from that archive would be exec/* and exec/load/*. I wouldn't worry about merging any INI files.

digital man

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Re: Windows CVS snapshots?
By: Android8675 to Mcsteve on Mon Dec 08 2014 08:20 am

You should be using MSVC2013 Express, it's free, get it from microsoft.com.

Yep, got that. I might try to build from source eventually.

For now, it looks like I managed to get it figured out using digital man's prebuilt snapshots. As far as I can tell, I didn't even break anything. Yet.

-McSteve

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