From a peabody user:

> 4. This is a tricky one, the unicows.dll was pretty
> easy to find, follow the instructions. I couldn't
> find the 'unicows.lib' because it seems like
> Microsoft has hidden the Platform SDK for
> Windows98/95.
>
> I did some googling and you can find the 300MB+
> Platform SDK. It seems like MS has a hidden link for
> all the CAB files on their site. You are looking for
> the Win9x SDK.
>
> This is the Oct2002 or the Nov2002 update?
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk
> /update/win98mexp/en-us/3718.1/FULL/PSDK-FULL.1.cab
>
> And for the sake of a shorter post. There are '16'
> cab files, replace the '1' above and download the
> rest, like so.
> ...PSDK-FULL.2.cab
> ...PSDK-FULL.3.cab
>
> And two other files
>
> ...PSDK-FULL.bat
> ...extract.exe
>
> You type 'PSDK-FULL.bat' in the directory where you
> downloaded the 'CAB' files and those will be
> extracted.
>
> You 'can' type 'setup.exe' to install this Microsoft
> SDK. Unzipped, it weighs in at 300MB+, I didn't
> feel like installing this and messing up my system.
> I only needed the 'unicows.lib' file which is a 2MB
> B file.
>
> Enter the 'setup' directory of the Platform SDK
>
> The cab files are just zipped files, so I looked
> through all of them and found
> 'CoreSDK-common.2.1.cab'. This contained the
> 'unicows.lib'. I unzipped it and it gave me some
> weird file name
>
> unicows_lib.6DA6B05C_F046_4C67...
>
> I renamed this to
>
> unicows.lib and here is the Nov?(Oct) 2002 File.
> There you go. Put this somewhere and change your
> r ALT_UNICOWS_LIB_PATH
>
> Another note. It looks like JDK build script is
> looking for the file size of this particular file to
> validate it.
>
> It just happens, my filesize matched: '2325412'
>

We need to clean this up and make this work easier.

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