Maxima on GCL Win32 status report



Greetings!

Vadim, hope I'm reading this right -- 2.6.5 is no problem once stdio.h
is in the include path, right?

Take care,

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> writes:

> I'd like to report on the status of Maxima 5.9.0.9 prerelease
> on Windows.  In brief - it is ready with Paths.tcl I posted
> a while ago and GCL 2.6.3.  On the other hand there is some
> strange problem with GCL 2.6.5.
> 
> A few days ago my Windows XP crashed and after complete
> reinstall I made fresh MSYS/MinGW installation and
> tried to build GCL and Maxima.  Now my primary platform is
> Windows Me instead of Windows XP.
> 
> I installed MSYS 1.0.10, gcc 3.3.1, binutils 2.14.90,
> msysDTK 1.0.1, tcltk 8.4.1-1, Inno Setup 4.2.7,
> starkit.  Here is the msysinfo output
> ===============================================================
> $ msysinfo
> msysinfo-1.3: Send this to the MSYS support list:
> 
> MSYS 1.0.10(0.46/3/2) 2004-03-15 07:17 i686 unknown; targ=MINGW32
> GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-msys); ENV=.profile
> GNU Make version 3.79.1,Built for i686-pc-msys; MAKE_MODE=unix
> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.3.1 (mingw special 20030804-1); targ=MINGW32
> GNU ld version 2.14.90 20040120
>    789320 Tue Mar 16 09:32:50 2004 /bin/msys-1.0.dll
>     52064 Thu Jan 02 04:05:28 2003 /bin/msysltdl-3.dll
>    135680 Tue Mar 16 09:32:48 2004 /bin/make.exe
>     84992 Thu Aug 07 22:29:00 2003 /mingw/bin/gcc.exe
>    617472 Tue Jan 20 21:57:52 2004 /mingw/bin/ld.exe
> HOME=/home/vadim
> Sysname=MINGW32_ME-4.90  OSTYPE=msys  TERM=msys
> PATH=.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/gcl/bin:/c/maxima/bin:/
> c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND:/c/PROGRA~1/ATITEC~1/ATICON~1
> ================================================================
> 
> I've build two version of GCL 2.6.3 and 2.6.5 and two versions
> of Maxima on the top of these GCL builds: (1)
> Maxima-5.9.0.9beta2.tar.gz with replaced Paths.tcl,
>       fixed macses.lisp, and added win32/readme.txt
>        win32/infobefore.txt
>   (2) Current Maxima CVS with replaced Paths.tcl
> 
> All four Maxima installers work perfectly well on Windows XP
> and Windows Me except one problem with compile_file.
> 
> Maxima (1) (beta2 patched) with GCL 2.6.3 - compile_file crashes
> somewhere on GCL compiler stage foo.LISP -> foo.c ("fatal error,
> memory may be damaged...").
> 
> Maxima (2) (CVS patched) is OK.  compile_file works.
> Maxima pases all tests. With GCL 2.6.5 both Maxima versions (1) and
> (2) once again have
> problem with compile_file.  But now the problem is quite different.
> Maxima creates foo.c but compilation of this foo.c with gcc fails.
> This is the gcc error message I got trying to compile diag.mac:
> 
> diag.c:3228:20 stdlib.h: No such file or directory
> 
> If I copy stdlib.h from minwg/include to installed Maxima then
> it works perfectly well.
> 
> I'm about to commit corresponding changes to CVS and think that we
> are ready for release.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Vadim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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