in reply to Re: Parrot build mechanism expertise required.
in thread Parrot build mechanism expertise required.

Thankyou, that's both much more and much less than I expected.

Much more, in as much as I wasn't expecting to receive a solution to the question, just hoping for guidance in arriving at one:)

Much less in that I expected there to be considerably more work involved in getting there. The main difference between what you provided and what I had tried was the use of BCC32 for the linker instead of ilink32, and the use of "" for the linker options. Suffice to say, I now have parrot.exe built and the testing is progressing

Test results summary--final

Failed Test     Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
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+----------
t/op/hacks.t       1   256     9    1  11.11%  7
t/op/string.t      1   256    99    1   1.01%  97
t/src/basic.t    255 65280     2    2 100.00%  1-2
t/src/exit.t     255 65280     2    2 100.00%  1-2
t/src/intlist.t  255 65280     4    4 100.00%  1-4
t/src/list.t     255 65280     2    2 100.00%  1-2
t/src/sprintf.t  255 65280     2    2 100.00%  1-2
21 subtests skipped.
Failed 7/46 test scripts, 84.78% okay. 14/658 subtests failed, 97.87% 
+okay.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '
+0xff'
Stop.

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