Fw: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows



Greetings!


"Mike Thomas" <miketh@brisbane.paradigmgeo.com> writes:

> Live and learn...
> 
> >   - reviving XMaxima,
> 
> I just realised after some input from Dave Billinghurst and an experiment
> that all I had to do to make XMaxima work (at a Cygwin prompt) was:
> 
>     export MAXIMA_DIRECTORY="c:/cvs/maxima-pre59"
>     ./bin/xmaxima
> 
> I had previously thought that this would require a build of gcl-tk, which
> meant working around the "fork()" in "gcl-tk/guis.c".  This means that a
> Mingw32 xmaxima executable will just need to be built from the xmaxima
> script using freewrap as previosly done by Dave- what a relief!
> 

This sounds like a pleasantly low overhead option.  What is the matter
with fork() on Mingw32?  Not that it is critical, but one day I'd like
to develop a gtk interface for gcl.

Take care,

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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