Has anyone tried the new build system in a Windows environment? I know
some excellent work was done earlier with Cygwin and Clisp - is it
possible to make a self contained binary from that setup? (I apologize
for not having been more responsive to the earlier attempts. You guys
deserve a lot of credit - thanks much.)
I've looked briefly at the mingw compiler, although I haven't been able
to try it yet, and I'd appreciate it if those of you who have been
successful at this using cygwin or mingw, whatever lisp you used, would
post a detailed list of what you did. I'm especially interested in
whether anyone has been able to use the new system, but the old one
will also do fine. (I've never tried any serious development stuff on
Windows before, so I'll be installing mingw and cygwin and working from
that level. So I won't know things like what and where to add stuff to
paths, what the steps needed to compile are, etc. Basically, if I can
do it, anyone can.) I'd like to get a grip on this before 5.9 if
possible, both so we can release a beta the Windows people can use to
help look for bugs in the mathematical end of things and I can begin to
prepare a more robust setup script for InnoSetup. Looking at mingw, it
seems like that is the preferable system to use for generating Windows
binaries if possible, since it sidesteps the emulation layer cygwin
uses, if not we need to figure out how to make a stand alone binary
from cygwin which will not require the user to download and install
cygwin itself along with Maxima.
Also, has anyone had any luck with makeing an exe of Xmaxima? I rather
doubt we'll have a fancier interface than that for quite a while, so
we'd better figure out how to work with that one. And if anyone has
Emaxima working like gangbusters on the Windows version of Emacs, that
would be another good thing to document in detail. If not, please tell
us what failed and how it failed.
Thanks much,
CY
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