[clean-list] error message when compiling: short path ???

[Diederik van Arkel]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Spitsbroeders wrote:

> Hi all,
> I read about Clean in C'T, I became very interested because of the 
> very uncommon structure of this language. I installed the software and 
> tried some first steps, but I didn't even manage to compile the 
> "life-game" in the exaples section. I was confronted with the error 
> that a "short path" to the compiler was not found. My system is Win 
> 2k. I am only a programming newbie and I guess I have to try some 
> more, but I figure someone else's been going through this before and 
> might gimme a hint.
> Thanks i.a.
> Joost
>
Hi Joost,

there are two possible causes I can think of offhand:
1) You navigated to the example project via the network name of your PC
	e.g. //Joost's PC/Clean/Examples/...
	The CleanIde currently has problems with this although I think this 
doesn't
	show itself until the code generation stage.
2) The environment settings got corrupted. If you didn't modify your 
setup from
	the distribution then if you look in Environments:Current Environment 
then
	you should see under the heading compiler:Tools/Clean System 
2.0.2/Clean Compiler 2.0.2
	and you should have a Clean Compiler 2.0.2.exe in the 
Clean/Tools/Clean System 2.0.2/
	directory.

If this doesn't help please mail me some further details of how you 
have setup your
installation and we'll try to sort this out.

Regards,

Diederik van Arkel
<diederik@cs.kun.nl>