SheepShaver V2.2 Installation and User's Guide (Windows)

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Installation

Using the windows executable:

Pick up the nesseccary files:
-Sheepshaver executable from: http://gwenole.beauchesne.free.fr/sheepshaver/files/  look for a file called: SheepShaver.exe.bz2 or some other name that suggests a windows executable
-Sdl.dll from: SDL-1.2.7-win32.zip

and place them in the same directory.

Now unpack the executable with winzip so you have SheepShaver.exe in your directory.
Also unpack the sdl.dll file in the same directory

When ready go to Setting up Sheepshaver

Build it yourself:

-You will have to install a Cygwin environment to be able to compile SheepShaver for Windows in Windows.
So go to the site above and start setup.exe. When downloading or installing directly make shure you selected the appropriate packages. There's a list of packages here(to be filled in)

-Next, install SDL in Cygwin. Download  SDL-1.2.7.tar.gz (1.2.8 has a small error) version from here, and unpack the archive (with f.e. winzip) into a Cygwin directory.
-Start Cygwin, go to the directory you created for the unpacked SDL files and issue the next commands:

./autogen.sh
make
make install

-Now situate yourself in directory of your liking and download the source using the following commands in the cygwin window:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@down.physik.uni-mainz.de:/cvs login  
(password is "anoncvs") 

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@down.physik.uni-mainz.de:/cvs checkout BasiliskII
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@down.physik.uni-mainz.de:/cvs checkout SheepShaver

cd SheepShaver

make links

cd src/Windows
NOCONFIGURE=1 ../Unix/autogen.sh
make

-Next, copy the file SheepShaver.exe to a windows directory of your liking, and make shure you copy SDL.dll there as well. 
It is to be found in your Cygwin directory structure under (to be filled in)

When ready go to Setting up Sheepshaver