FW: [Maxima] New release candidate with windows installer available

Just as a couple extra data points, my two computers with slow startup
times had neither cygwin nor msys/mingw installed.

CY

--- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I consider this to be an extremely promising
> line
> of investigation. I am hoping this will fix a confusing set of
> windows-related bugs. Please keep us all posted.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:45, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> > Your suggestion looks very plausible to me. It also
> > explains why comiler tets passes to me on two
> > Windows installation and fails on others - on these
> > very two Windows installs I have mingw and msys
> > installed before. On all others (on all the test fails)
> > no any ming/msys/cigwin.   But when I copied heder
> > files acciording to your recomendations -  nothing
> > changed - compile(f) still fails.  Maybe I'm doing
> > something wrong?  What is the proper place for
> > the headers - Maxima-5.9.0.rc4/include I suppose?
> > 
> > 
> > Billinghurst, David (CRTS) ?????:
> > > I have identified the cause of the  DESOLVE([EQN1, EQN2], [f(x),
> G(x)])
> > > failure you reported (see attached). Unfortunately the maxima
> list is rejecting my 
> > > postings to the list
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: CRTS 
> > > Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2003 11:34 PM
> > > To: 'Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis'; 'James Amundson'
> > > Cc: 'maxima mailing list'
> > > Subject: RE: [Maxima] New release candidate with windows
> installer available
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I hate replying to my own mail.  Ignore the fix in it.   As is
> often the case,
> > > I found the real problem just after I posted the wrong fix.  
> > > 
> > > The problem is that a few of the gcc header files are missing, so
> that
> > > the compile test in rtest15.mac aborts and doesn't clean up after
> itself.
> > > 
> > > The fix is to copy the following gcc files:
> > >  lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2/include/*.h (but not the subdirectories)
> > >  include/math.h
> > >  include/unistd.h
> > >  include/io.h
> > >  include/process.h
> > >  include/sys/*.h
> > > 
> > > then confirm that the compiler works
> > > 
> > > (C1) f(x):=x+2;
> > > (D1) 				 f(x) := x + 2
> > > (C2) compile(f);
> > > Compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> > > End of Pass 1.  
> > > End of Pass 2.  
> > > OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=2, Speed=2
> > > Finished compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> > > (D2) 				      [f]
> > > (C3) 
> > > 
> -- 
> James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>
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