I'm trying to get to the point where I can build Maxima.
I'm using Windows 2000 and I've gotten as far as installing (or actually
reinstalling) mingw and msys. I already had TCL and other stuff.
Anyway I succeeded in getting the january 3rd version of GCL from CVS (using
the client from CVSNT and the command line from INSTALL.win32).
I even built and ran GCL...
But gcl/readme.mingw says:
- To install:
make install >& install.log
It is necessary to install GCL before building Maxima.
but
$ make install >& install.log
returns:
make install1 "INSTALL_LIB_DIR=c:/gcl/lib/gcl-`cat majvers`.`cat minvers`"
"prefix=c:/gcl" "DESTDIR="
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/gcl'
mkdir -p c:/gcl/lib
mkdir -p c:/gcl/bin
mkdir -p c:/gcl/lib/gcl-2.5.0
mkdir: cannot create directory `c:/gcl/lib/gcl-2\001.5.0': No such file or
directory
make[1]: *** [install1] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/gcl'
make: *** [install] Error 2
Creating "c:/gcl/lib/gcl-2.5.0" by hand doesn't stop the error from
happening and I can't find the line that actually makes the directory since
it comes from a variable called "libdir" and there are thousands of
references to libdir in the scripts.
any clues?
Joshua Scholar