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Getting And Installing CVS Under Windows
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Unless you're truly religious about having the source code to your
executable, you don't need to compile CVS from source on your Windows
box.  Unlike Unix, the necessary compilation tools probably do not
already exist on your system, so a source build would involve first
going out and getting those tools.  Because such a project is beyond the
scope of this book, I'll just give instructions for getting a
precompiled CVS binary.

First, note that Windows binary distributions of CVS are usually made
only for major releases of CVS - not for the interim releases - and are
not found on the GNU FTP site.  So you'll need to go to Cyclic
Software's download site, where in the major version directory,
`http://download.cyclic.com/pub/cvs-1.10/', you'll see an extra
subdirectory

     Index of /pub/cvs-1.10
         cvs-1.10.tar.gz        14-Aug-98 09:35   2.4M
         windows/

inside of which is a ZIP file:

     Index of /pub/cvs-1.10/windows
         cvs-1.10-win.zip       14-Aug-98 10:10   589k

This ZIP file contains a binary distribution of CVS.  Download and
extract that ZIP file:

     floss$ unzip cvs-1.10-win.zip
     
     Archive:  cvs-1.10-win.zip
       inflating: cvs.html
       inflating: cvs.exe
       inflating: README
       inflating: FAQ
       inflating: NEWS
       inflating: patch.exe
       inflating: win32gnu.dll

The README there contains detailed instructions.  For most
installations, they can be summarized as follows: Put all of the EXE and
DLL files in a directory in your PATH.  Additionally, if you're going to
be using the pserver method to access a remote repository, you may need
to put the following in your `C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT' file and reboot:

     set HOME=C:

This tells CVS where to store the .cvspass file.

CVS running under Windows cannot currently serve repositories to remote
machines; it can be a client (connecting to remote repositories), and
operate in local mode (using a repository on the same machine).  For the
most part, this book assumes that CVS under Windows is operating as a
client.  However, it shouldn't be too hard to set up a local repository
under Windows after reading the Unix-oriented instructions in the rest
of this chapter.

If you are only accessing remote repositories, you may not even need to
run CVS.  There is a tool called WinCvs that implements only the
client-side portion of CVS.  It is distributed separately from CVS
itself but, like CVS, is freely available under the GNU General Public
License.  More information is available from `http://www.wincvs.org'.