Hello Do you if there exists

By baxsane on 2 Oct 2005 at 17:06 UTC

I have just downloaded a module which requires certain other modules to be patched. I don't have linux system at hand, so I was wondering if there were an equavelent tool for Windows Xp?

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Drupal - System requirements

london3 commented 2 October 2005 at 19:10

The Drupal System requirements is on the following link
http://drupal.org/node/270

You can run Drupal under IIS on several Windows platforms.

The problem is that on XP IIS is only available on XP Professional. Must users are using XP Home.

Remember you have to install PHP on IIS.

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IIS comes with Windows XP

sepeck commented 2 October 2005 at 19:51

IIS comes with Windows XP Home. The IIS that comes with it does not have an SMTP server which is very useful to testing Drupal. There are several free ones, but we venture far from Drupal setup for getting ready for Drupal setup. hMailServer and MailEnable are free. THey have forums for helping set them up.

Tools that are simpler then figuring out cygwin are listed in the handbook
http://drupal.org/node/32635

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Alternately - Use Apache

BobT-1 commented 2 October 2005 at 21:45

Just a few days ago I found and installed Wamp5 and Drupal CVS on a test box at work. This box will not be exposed to the Internet, so I am not concerned with security.

For testing purposes, you may want to try it out. Installing Wamp5 and Drupal took less than an hour from research to completion. Since I've already done the research, it should be much less time for you.

However, I think your original question has more to do with how to patch a module on XP than how to run a test Drupal server. We won't know that for sure until you reply to our comments ;)

I don't know if Wamp5 uses SMTP or not, so this may get you no farther than sepeck's suggestion above. However, by testing on Apache, you will have a better match to what you might find on a hosted solution, which will make it easier to migrate your sites to production.

I personally feel that the choice of web server is arbitrary, but I did not want to try to figure out how to install PHP for IIS.
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Cygwin

BobT-1 commented 2 October 2005 at 19:24

Cygwin is a program that adds a Linux command shell to Windows. When installing, on the Select Packages dialog, you need to add Utils | Patch. I'm not sure if you need Utils | PatchUtils or not, but I have it, so you might want to grab it while you are there.

To complete the instructions for patching the module, you will have to copy the .module and .patch files to your new Cygwin home folder. Mine is C:\cygwin\home\Bob. Then just copy it out when you are done.
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unxutils.sourceforge.net

shunter commented 2 October 2005 at 19:27

It sounds like you are looking for a patch utility for windows. Try downloading unxutils.zip from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net.

If that version doesn't work for you, try googling for cygwin. Its a complete unix-like environment for windows, but probably overkill if all you need is patch.