Hi CY,
Some time ago, I was able to build both GCL and Maxima (older
versions)using a beta 21 version of Cygwin (on a 120MHz notebook - took a
few hours). It pretty much compiled out of the box, with very minor
fiddling. With the more recent Cygwin and GCL I have not had success,
meaning that I have not gotten to a successful build of GCL. I have not yet
tried to build CLISP and Maxima from the new source which has been developed
since Dr. Schelter's passing. The only reason I haven't done this has been
from lack of time, but I am now willing to take a stab at it. I would be
doing this on a Windows NT machine with Cygwin 1.1.8 . In any case, I will
try to do this over the next little while and let you know how it goes.
Dave Holmgren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Y [SMTP:smustudent1 at yahoo]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:47 PM
> To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Cc: David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com; DavidHolmgren@smarttech.com
> Subject: Windows
>
> 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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