[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] building under windows

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Mike, can you spot what is going on here?  Can you
reproduce any of it?  Barton -- I cannot think of any recent changes
which could explain your difficulties.  And as you note, others are
reporting success, so I'm assuming an issue with the msys
versions/utilities.  If we can narrow this down to a reproducible
failure, please let me know as we must fix before 2.6.2.  If we can
pinpoint dome bad external lib version, perhaps we could screen for it
in configure.  I already know there is a bad binutils in some msys.
For reference, Vadim, David Billinghurst, Mike Thomas, and I think
R. Boyer are compiling successfully on Windows.  Our fate is in their
capable hands, as I do not have/use such a machine.

Take care,

Barton Willis <address@hidden> writes:

> Addendum:
> 
> I built a command line Maxima (windows XP) from the current CVS 
> sources. My Maxima runs okay in a XEmacs shell. I didn't try to 
> build xmaxima.  In addition to the installation notes, let me add
> 
> (1) I installed a gcl-2.6.1 binary  from 
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/gclwin.html
> 
> I didn't install the "older version" that the page also refers to.  The 
> gcl banner is
> 
> GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.6.1 ANSI   Feb 27 2004 12:14:42
> Source License: LGPL(gcl,gmp), GPL(unexec,bfd)
> Binary License:  GPL due to GPL'ed components: (UNEXEC)
> 
> (2) I used TortoiseCVS to download the Maxima CVS sources.  Getting
> the right information into the TortoiseCVS dialog boxes was frustrating.
> If I were to do it over, I'd use the command-line cvs from msys.
> 
> (3) I installed mingw and msys from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml . 
> 
>   (a) installed MSYS-1.0.10-rc-4.exe and MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe 
>   (b) installed msysDTK3.0.0-1.exe 
>   (c)installed updates and extras to these components---including
> 
> gcc-core-3.3.3-20040217-1.tar.gz 
> msys-automake-1.8.2.tar
> gcc-g++-3.3.3-20040217-1.tar.gz 
> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
>  w32api-2.5.tar.gz
> tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe
> 
> Maybe tcltk isn't needed for command-line Maxima. I may have installed 
> other files.
> 
> (4) Changed  line # 1822 of lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp to
> 
>   #-:gcl(abs-name (ignore-errors (file-namestring abs-dir)))
>   #+:gcl(abs-name (file-namestring abs-dir))
> 
> (5) I commented out the src/csimp2.lisp function $ENTERMATRIX.
> 
> (6) I completely commented out the file src/specfun.lisp.
> 
> (7) I commented out  the function MFUNCTION-CALL-WARN  in fcall.lisp
> 
> Again, maybe the bugs that manifested in 4--7  are fixed in the newest 
> GCL. 
> 
> Barton
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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