Thanks David and Camm. I've succesfully built gcl with the latest
Mingw/Msys without pain. A simple checkout and a configure worked fine.
Yes, I've noticed too that the option to disable xdr was broken, I didn't
mention this fact in my previous email.
Now I will try to finish the build process and the creation of the
installer (just to learn how to do it).
I think we should update the information given by install.win32, they are
obsolete in some points and now the procedure is easier, at least for the
gcl-related part.
Stefano
2012/1/17 Camm Maguire <camm at maguirefamily.org>
> Greetings! Great to hear of your progress. BTW, I build frequently
> under latest wine/mingw packages in Debian, together with
> maxima/acl2/axiom, without issue. Had a native windows box too recently
> and got things working.
>
> axiom needs xdr. Latest glibc moves the functions, and my configure fix
> was too stringent. How about this:
>
> --- configure.in 16 Jan 2012 20:08:03 -0000
> 1.112.4.1.2.2.2.47.2.3.2.1.4.2.4.2.4.70
> +++ configure.in 17 Jan 2012 17:21:56 -0000
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> [try_japi=$enableval],[try_japi="no"])
>
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(xdr,[ --enable-xdr=yes will compile in support for XDR],
> -[try_xdr=$enableval],[try_xdr="no"])
> +[enable_xdr=$enableval],[enable_xdr="yes"])
>
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(xgcl,[ --enable-xgcl=yes will compile in support for XGCL],
> [enable_xgcl=$enableval],[enable_xgcl="yes"])
> @@ -1046,8 +1046,12 @@
> fi
>
>
> -AC_CHECK_FUNC(xdr_double,,
> - AC_CHECK_LIB(tirpc,xdr_double,TLIBS="$TLIBS
> -ltirpc",AC_MSG_ERROR([Need xdr_double])))
> +if test "$enable_xdr" = "yes" ; then
> + AC_CHECK_FUNC(xdr_double,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR),
> + AC_CHECK_LIB(tirpc,xdr_double,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR) TLIBS="$TLIBS
> -ltirpc",
> + AC_CHECK_LIB(rpc,xdr_double,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR) TLIBS="$TLIBS
> -lrpc",
> + AC_CHECK_LIB(oncrpc,xdr_double,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR)
> TLIBS="$TLIBS -loncrpc"))))
> +fi
>
> AC_MSG_CHECKING(__builtin___clear_cache)
> AC_TRY_COMPILE([],
> @@ -1373,17 +1377,17 @@
> EXTRA_LOBJS="${EXTRA_LOBJS} gcl_japi.o"
> LIBS="${LIBS} -ljapi -lwsock32"] )
> fi
> -if test "$use" = "mingw" ; then
> - if test "$try_xdr" = "yes" ; then
> - AC_CHECK_HEADERS(rpc/rpc.h,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR)
> - LIBS="${LIBS} -loncrpc"] )
> - fi
> -else
> - if test "$try_xdr" = "yes" ; then
> - AC_CHECK_HEADERS(rpc/rpc.h,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR)
> - LIBS="${LIBS} -lrpc"] )
> - fi
> -fi
> +dnl if test "$use" = "mingw" ; then
> +dnl if test "$try_xdr" = "yes" ; then
> +dnl AC_CHECK_HEADERS(rpc/rpc.h,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR)
> +dnl LIBS="${LIBS} -loncrpc"] )
> +dnl fi
> +dnl else
> +dnl if test "$try_xdr" = "yes" ; then
> +dnl AC_CHECK_HEADERS(rpc/rpc.h,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_XDR)
> +dnl LIBS="${LIBS} -lrpc"] )
> +dnl fi
> +dnl fi
>
> # Should really find a way to check for prototypes, but this
> # basically works for now. CM
>
> David Billinghurst <dbmaxima at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > A couple of days ago I posted a windows installer for maxima-5.26.0 at
> >
> > http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.26.0.exe
> >
> > See http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2012/027451.html
> >
> > Having set up the build system, I decided to try it on a current
> mingw/msys installation. As some of you know, it is a tricky build as gcl on
> > windows is touchy. The last version of gcc that could be used to build
> gcl was gcc-3.3.1 from August 2003, and you need to have an ancient mingw/
> > msys install. See the INSTALL.win32 file in maxima cvs for the details.
> There has been some progress with gcl. One can now build gcl with the
> > latest mingw32/msys using gcc-4.6.2 and successfully build a working
> maxima. While the build works on 32-bit WinXP, I haven't managed to
> reproduce
> > it (yet) on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
> >
> > Anyway, I have uploaded a test installer of maxima cvs 2012-01-16 using
> gcc-4.6.2 to
> >
> > http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.26.0-test.exe
> >
> > This is still work in progress, and some documentation is required, but
> I'd welcome feedback.
> >
> > David
> >
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