Re: [Gcl-devel] gcl-2.6.8

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings!  Just a heads up on the status.  Thanks to R. Krug's
> machine, I have an (as yet uncommitted) patch which builds gcl on all
> 3 flavors of macs (ppc, x86 10.5, and x86 10.6) , and windows emulated
> under wine, which build maxima and acl2 passing all tests.  Will be
> adding axiom to the test suite, then commit, then finalize 2.6.8.
>
> The 10.6 build is 32bit at the moment.  It appears that this is a hard
> limit at the present time due to gcc miscompiling gmp in 64bits.
>
> Donald, I think this patch will enable you to build natively under
> windows too.  It would be great if we could test this when its ready
> in a few days.  I have a few questions for you regarding paths and
> windows installers.
>
> I'll send out a note when the commit is in.
>

I just tried a build with msys/mingw32 on windows 7; it fails
with:

  Unrecoverable error: NULL_OR_ON_C_STACK macro invalid