Greetings! Mike, can you spot what is going on here? Can you
reproduce any of it? Barton -- I cannot think of any recent changes
which could explain your difficulties. And as you note, others are
reporting success, so I'm assuming an issue with the msys
versions/utilities. If we can narrow this down to a reproducible
failure, please let me know as we must fix before 2.6.2. If we can
pinpoint dome bad external lib version, perhaps we could screen for it
in configure. I already know there is a bad binutils in some msys.
For reference, Vadim, David Billinghurst, Mike Thomas, and I think
R. Boyer are compiling successfully on Windows. Our fate is in their
capable hands, as I do not have/use such a machine.
Take care,
Barton Willis <willisb@unk.edu> writes:
> Addendum:
>
> I built a command line Maxima (windows XP) from the current CVS
> sources. My Maxima runs okay in a XEmacs shell. I didn't try to
> build xmaxima. In addition to the installation notes, let me add
>
> (1) I installed a gcl-2.6.1 binary from
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/gclwin.html
>
> I didn't install the "older version" that the page also refers to. The
> gcl banner is
>
> GCL (GNU Common Lisp) 2.6.1 ANSI Feb 27 2004 12:14:42
> Source License: LGPL(gcl,gmp), GPL(unexec,bfd)
> Binary License: GPL due to GPL'ed components: (UNEXEC)
>
> (2) I used TortoiseCVS to download the Maxima CVS sources. Getting
> the right information into the TortoiseCVS dialog boxes was frustrating.
> If I were to do it over, I'd use the command-line cvs from msys.
>
> (3) I installed mingw and msys from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml .
>
> (a) installed MSYS-1.0.10-rc-4.exe and MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
> (b) installed msysDTK3.0.0-1.exe
> (c)installed updates and extras to these components---including
>
> gcc-core-3.3.3-20040217-1.tar.gz
> msys-automake-1.8.2.tar
> gcc-g++-3.3.3-20040217-1.tar.gz
> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
> w32api-2.5.tar.gz
> tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe
>
> Maybe tcltk isn't needed for command-line Maxima. I may have installed
> other files.
>
> (4) Changed line # 1822 of lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp to
>
> #-:gcl(abs-name (ignore-errors (file-namestring abs-dir)))
> #+:gcl(abs-name (file-namestring abs-dir))
>
> (5) I commented out the src/csimp2.lisp function $ENTERMATRIX.
>
> (6) I completely commented out the file src/specfun.lisp.
>
> (7) I commented out the function MFUNCTION-CALL-WARN in fcall.lisp
>
> Again, maybe the bugs that manifested in 4--7 are fixed in the newest
> GCL.
>
> Barton
>
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