Re: [Maxima] Fw: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows

[James Amundson]

Dear Mike,

I am glad to hear you are working on getting Maxima to work on Windows.
Other people on the Maxima list have discussed various Windows build
issues. If they would care to step forward we could try to organize the
effort.

Did you use the old build system, the new build system, or something
else? Please be aware that not everything is working in the Unix system,
particularly the various internal path settings. I don't think xmaxima
is working right now, either. All these things will be fixed by the time
we release 5.9.0. In the meantime, it's worth asking on the list if the
problems you find exist outside of Windows.

--Jim


On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 14:48, Mike Thomas wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm pleased to announce that I now have a native Win32 (text mode only)
> build of Maxima 5.9 as well as GCL 2.5, both based on the latest CVS
> sources.  The build was hosted under Cygwin using the standalone Mingw32 1.1
> gcc compiler.  I have done some simple polynomial factorisation, linear and
> non-linear equation manipulation, linear algebra and integration to do a
> first, successful, check of the viability of this setup.
> 
> Thanks to Camm (various bits of help), Rainer Keuchel (for the memory
> checking code from his WinCE/32 port of GCL and inspiration) and Dan Stanger
> (pointer about fasd format switch and other knowledge bootstrapping).
> 
> In compiling Maxima, I found that there is a bug in GCL's MAKE-PATHNAME
> function which I have not had time to fix - it doesn't handle executable
> names with .exe extensions properly.  I worked around this by using
> STRING-RIGHT-TRIM on the result of SI::ARGV in "init_max1.lisp".
> 
> I will be unable to do anything further on this for a couple of days, but I
> hope to check everything into CVS as soon as possible.
> 
> I guess after that the next steps will be:
> 
>   - making the help system work (more path trouble I think),
>   - making binaries available for testing,
>   - reviving XMaxima,
>   - tuning the configuration process, and
>   - using MSYS rather than Cygwin to host the build.
> 
> I make no promises on time frames for this list.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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