On 05/14/2013 04:19 PM, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Could you explain? If the Maxima lisp source code deviates from what
> can be compiled and run in GCL,
> is it that GCL has changed? Or is Maxima now demanding some kind of
> closer adherence to
> Common Lisp??
I have not even reached the point of compiling Maxima. The problem is
still trying to get a working copy of GCL.
Using various different recent versions of "mingw" and "msys" the
command make fails to compile GCL, complaining of some unknown gcc
command-line options. Apparently those wrong options were parsed by
autoconf/automake but it was very hard for me to find out why that was
happening and a Google search didn't
give me any clues either.
I have been able to build GCL in the past, but it has always been
necessary to use some specific combinations of GCL, mingw and msys. We
could fetch ancient versions of GCL already compiled for Windows, but
they are
known to have bugs which were solved in more recent versions
>
> Or if it is the installer, how does switching between GCL and SBCL
> change the situation?
It would change it in the sense that I might finally manage to any
working Lisp in my Windows machine :)
Regards,
Jaime