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How best to install Arc on a Windows 7 machine?
3 points by wnw 4318 days ago | 3 comments
I’ve been assigned a project requiring Arc. Our office machines use Windows 7. I notice from earlier discussions on the forum that there have been difficulties getting Arc up and running on machines that use earlier versions of Windows. What is the best way to get Arc running with Windows 7?


2 points by zck 4318 days ago | link

...that's fantastic. Can you say where you are that has Arc projects? Or what the project is? And if you're hiring? (this is half a joke).

There's some community-written documentation on a wiki (https://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki/), which points Windows users towards http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=12397 as instructions.

While I don't have a Windows machine to test on now, I had gotten Arc working quite easily before on one (I was not running HN, which would exercise more code paths than were executed). Try it and see what happens.

Alternately, if this is an existing project, someone at the office should know how to get it working. If you try it and something breaks, let us know and we can help out!

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3 points by rocketnia 4318 days ago | link

"...which points Windows users towards http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=12397 as instructions."

I use Windows 7 now, and it's the same process as usual. If you're using Anarki, the 'setuid problem should already be fixed.

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2 points by rocketnia 4311 days ago | link

I have a Windows 8.1 machine now, and it's still the same process. :)

The biggest pain was when I was trying to download the Anarki GitHub repo in the first place. I've been cloning GitHub repos over SSH URLs using Cygwin's build of Git, and setting this up on Windows 8 was a bit surprising: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9561759/why-cannot-chmod-...

Nowadays, there are probably easier ways to get Anarki on Windows, like using GitHub for Windows or just using the GitHub website's "Download ZIP" button.

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