[Gcl-devel] RE: Axiom on Windows

[Page, Bill]

Mike,

Your results are fantastic!!! You have every right to
be pleased.

Yes, I can wait until GCL 2.6.2 is finished, but when
you have a moment I really would appreciate hearing
what you had to change. If I look at my old notes I may
be able to find some of the path changes that I had to
make in my last (failed) attempt.

Great work!

Regards,
Bill Page.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Thomas [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:36 AM
> To: address@hidden Org
> Cc: Root; address@hidden; Camm Maguire; Bill Page
> Subject: Axiom on Windows
> 
> 
> Hi Tim/Bill.
> 
> I'm very close to getting a truncated Axiom running on 
> Windows using the pending GCL 2.6.2 release code - (no
> sockets, Unixisms, XWindows stuff; had to restart make
> twice as it couldn't hack the pace etc).  It's a mess but
> I couldn't contain my excitement!
> 
> After getting through the algebra layer and making the 
> algebra docs, GCL finally barfed at the point of rebuilding
> the databases as set out below (due to a path issue
> I think); Lisp debugger debug log below for Camm.
> 
> I decided to press ahead, copying these files:
> 
> c:/cvs/head/axiom/src/share/algebra/browse.daase
> c:/cvs/head/axiom/src/share/algebra/category.daase
> c:/cvs/head/axiom/src/share/algebra/compress.daase
> c:/cvs/head/axiom/src/share/algebra/interp.daase
> c:/cvs/head/axiom/src/share/algebra/operation.daase
> 
> into "c:/cvs/head/axiom/mnt/windows/algebra" and the command 
> summary into
> "mnt/windows/lib".
> 
> Starting Axiom I had the very simple (and messy) session
> also shown below.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> How do I turn off the TeXish output and the module load log 
> in a console session.  I tried this:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (1) -> )set output tex off
> (1) -> 1+2
>    Loading c:/cvs/head/axiom/mnt/windows/algebra/PI.o for domain
>       PositiveInteger
>    Loading c:/cvs/head/axiom/mnt/windows/algebra/NNI.o for domain
>       NonNegativeInteger
>    Loading c:/cvs/head/axiom/mnt/windows/algebra/INT.o for domain
>       Integer
> 
>    Loading c:/cvs/head/axiom/mnt/windows/algebra/OUTFORM.o for domain
>       OutputForm
>    Loading c:/cvs/head/axiom/mnt/windows/algebra/LIST.o for 
> domain List
> 
>    (1)  3
> \axPrintType{\lispLink{\verb!(|conPage| '(
> |PositiveInteger| ))!}{\verb`Positive
> Integer`}}(2) ->
> (2) ->
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> 
> but it doesn't seem to have worked so I suppose that there is 
> a bug here specific to Windows.
> 
> I don't want to fall into another open source development 
> black hole so I probably won't go much further with this
> myself, but I'm feeling very pleased at the moment.
> 
> Bill, I can tell you what I did to get this far if you like 
> (patch etc, based on your earlier posting to the group + some
> other stuff), but you would probably be better off waiting until
> GCL 2.6.2 is finalised and Tim/whomever updates the Axiom lisp
> source tree to reflect current trends in GCL development.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
>