FYI - Mingw32 build of Maxima looms again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Thomas" <miketh at brisbane>
To: <gcl-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows
> Hi there.
>
> I have found at least part of the trouble with the Mingw32 port of GCL by
> comparing the compilation methods for GCL and Maxima.
>
> The problem revolved around "cmpnew/cmpmain.c".
>
> Apparently twelve nulls had to be inserted between the compiler generated
> object code. I intend to test further to double check this as I am not
> absolutely certain whether this is necessary. A further problem was that
I
> had not enabled the broken O4 optimisation workaround.
>
> I am also pleased to report that the binary data format was not the
problem.
>
> The end result of these and the other changes I have reported earlier is
> that I can now use "compile-file" from the REPL loop and load the
resulting
> object file using Mingw32 compiled GCL.
>
> If someone can organise CVS write access for me I will check in the
changes
> I have made to get this far.
>
> saved_maxima.exe is compiling stuff built as I leave catch the train home.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
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