Camm Maguire writes:
>Greetings!
>
>Vadim, hope I'm reading this right -- 2.6.5 is no problem once stdio.h
>is in the include path, right?
>
>
>
Perfectly 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Maxima mailing list
>>Maxima@www.math.utexas.edu
>>http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>