[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL 2.6.6 does build Axiom on Windows

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> Mike, Camm,
> 
> On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:18 PM Mike Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > Good news I think.
> 
> Yes, I can confirm that it *does* build Axiom! It was my error.
> 
> > 
> > I end up with a directory called "axiom--windows--1--patch-13"
> > in which I successfully built Axiom on Windows:
> > ... 
> >   2. using 2.6.6 after modifications to "lsp/Makefile.pamphlet"
> > for minimum usual patching to the GCL 2.6.6 source in new
> > version gcl2.2.2w.
> > 
> 
> This is exactly the same thing I did.
> 
> > The modifications I made apart from adding "gcl-2.6.6.tgz" 
> > and new patch files in "zips" are to be found at the end of
> > this email.
> 
> Comparing my tla file-diffs with yours, however I found that
> I had unintentionally also removed the mingw.defs patch. :(
> Thanks very much for helping me to sort this out.
> 

Wonderful!  

So in case anyone cares, most/all these patches can be eliminated and
replaced with simple settings in gcl:

init_gcl.lsp.in --> (setq si::*system-banner* "")
gcl_cmpflet,gcl_cmpcall -> (setq compiler::*suppress-compiler-notes* t)
makefile,mingw.defs -> preliminary call to (compiler::link ...) to
                       build an image with extras and libspad.a linked
                       in.

Take care,

> > I believe I am using gcc 3.4.2, binutils 2.15.91, mingw32
> > runtime 3.5, win32 libraries 3.1.
> 
> Yes, same.
> 
> > 
> > Interestingly I get different output (less verbose) at the point
> > where AHYP.spad is compiled to that you mentioned in your earlier 
> > email, Bill, and to which I was previously accustomed:
> > 
> 
> Yes. In this version of the Axiom makefile the output of the
> algebra compiles is redirected to a file with the name int/*.out
> so that the compiler output for AHYP.spad is in 'int/AHYP.out'.
> I did this so that I could process the compiler "Loading"
> messages to produce a list of dependencies. If anyone is
> interested I can send you a copy of the script that I use to
> extra these dependencies - but that is a whole other issue
> since the list of dependencies is circular. Anyway I think
> this approach is more useful than just adding the compiler
> output to the other noise generated during the build.
> 
> You might also be interested in the 'fixedPoint' script which
> is included in axiom--windows--1--patch-13. This script
> resolves the inconsistencies between the algebra bootstrap
> lisp code and the code produced by the Axiom compiler.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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