Re: [Gcl-devel] help fixing edit_double, failure to print 1d-6 for gcl-2.6.8

[Donald Winiecki]

1. Using Mike Thomas' MinGW/MSYS setup that includes GCC 3.3.1:

a. Builds of 2.6.8 and 2.6.10pre accomplished on WinXP run on both
WinXP and Win7

b. I can't build anything today on Win7 with a fresh clone. Attached
are config and make logs from attempt to build 2.6.8 and 2.6.10pre
CLtL1 on Win7 using GCC 3.3.1 -- config appears to survive but make
ends with a segfault in both cases.

2. David's MInGW setup with GCC 4.6.2 builds only 2.6.8 and only on
WinXP. It doesn't build or run on Win7.

_don

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:50 AM, David Billinghurst <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 12:47 PM, Camm Maguire wrote:
>>
>> David Billinghurst <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> That works.  Thanks.
>>>
>>> Happy to try and answer any mingw questions, but I am not an expert.
>>> In fact, I have been spectacularly unsuccessful in hacking gcl on
>>> windows -
>>> all I have managed to do is keep gcl-2.6.8pre - and now 2.6.8 -
>>> running with gcc-3.3.1 on Windows XP.
>>>
>> Greetings!  I'm certainly no expert, but from my experience with mingw
>> on a real windows machine, there definitely appears to be instabilities
>> in the toolchain.  Utilities fail with 'permission denied', mysterious
>> segfaults building gmp are not reproducible, etc.  It almost appears as
>> if the entire mingw toolchain suffered from what gcl did until we moved
>> all its memory up above a certain address range.
>>
>> First, I'd like to know if binaries built under some lowest common
>> denominator windows will run on all others.  Windows people don't appear
>> to build software frequently, as just one of these issues would grind
>> Linux development to a complete halt.  Is it then fruitful to forget
>> about chasing down the buildtime idiosyncrasies in all windows versions
>> and focus for now on one build platform which will run on all others?
>>
>> Take care,
>
> I build the maxima windows installer using gcl.  This binary appears to run
> on all Windows versions since WinXP - well over 5000 downloads per version
> and no real complaints.  This is built using the Mike Thomas recipe, with
> c1993-4 software. The current release is build with 2.6.8pre 2013-01-01.
> gcl-2.6.8 with floating point printing patch appears to work works, although
> I haven't made a release using it.  I haven't tried 2.6.10pre recently.
>
> I get close on XP using recent mingw/msys and gcc-4.[678] - some mixes work
> and some don't.  I haven't tried systematically, kept good records or
> reported my failures.  It would be good to get this working reliably.
>
> I can't even run configure under Windows 7.  The failures appear mingw/msys
> related.  This may be a problem with the build machine, but I haven't tried
> to separate either of my kids from their laptops to try another machine.
>
> Let me try some systematic tests over the next few days.
>
>
>
>

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