Concurrent Versions System (CVS) Version 1.5 ported to Microsoft Windows NT Cyclic Software Cyclic Software has ported the client side of CVS 1.5 to Windows NT. The port implements the full set of CVS commands, but cannot access repositories located on the local machine. The repository must live on another machine (a Unix box, say) which runs a complete port of CVS. Source code for the port is available from Cyclic Software as: ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/windows-nt/cvs-1.5nt.tar.gz That includes documentation, in Texinfo and PostScript. It's all distributed as a gzipped tar file instead of a .ZIP file because, as far as I can tell, PKZIP insists on munging long file names, which would confuse the makefile for Visual C++. To compile, use Microsoft Visual C++ on the file cvsnt.mak in the distribution's top directory. We haven't tested it under any other development environments. If you're curious, see below about the warnings you may encounter. We've put a Windows NT 80x86 executable for CVS in the same directory as the source distribution, called cvs.exe. Full documentation is present in PostScript format in the source distribution. Generally, we'd like to avoid spending much time on binary distributions. Please send bug reports to bug-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu. I can't promise to fix them --- paying work must come first --- but the reports will not be tossed, and I'll see what I can do. This port passes the test in src/sanity.sh. (We ran the checks by hand, since we couldn't find a port of the Bourne shell good enough to execute the script). Sanity.sh provides pretty minimal feature coverage, but still gives me some confidence it isn't totally broken. For best results, you will also need GNU patch and GZIP installed on your system, although CVS can be used without them. The Congruent ports of these packages to Windows NT, binary and source, are available in: ftp://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu At the moment, this port isn't integrated into our mainline CVS sources, but I expect that to be straightforward. I'll get around to it soon, but as I said, paying work... Now, strictly speaking, I don't *know* that this port won't correctly access repositories on the local machine. I haven't tried it. I have put calls to abort in places I'm pretty sure are wrong. If you'd like to finish it off and post patches, Morten Hindsholm's port of CVS 1.4A2 to Windows NT might be helpful; it is available as ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/schueman/cvs/cvsnt14b.zip I get the following warnings when compiling this port of CVS 1.5 under Microsoft Visual C++. They are all harmless. - main.c: This is a very wierd warning message! If you understand what it's trying to say, let me know: 'void (__cdecl *)(void)' differs in parameter lists from 'void (__cdecl *)(void )' Okay, whatever, man. - sighandle.c: These are harmless conflicts in the arguments of pointed-to functions. You're welcome to submit patches for them. - regex.c: These are signed/unsigned comparison conflicts. I am not going to *touch* this code. :-) I got my fill of it when I was hacking GNU Emacs. Jim Blandy <jimb@cyclic.com> Sunday, August 20, 1995
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.