Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Automation & algebra lattice

[Bill Page]

Tim,

I don't use cygwin for Axiom anymore. I started out that way and
did manage to get CCL to compile some months back and then
I used it to compile (most of?) interpsys. But at that point you
decided to proceed first with GCL instead. Building GCL is
not supported under Cygwin. It should be fairly easy to do but
at this time there is no one who wants to take on the job of
debugging the build process. At this point I only use cygwin
when I need to talk directly with the Linux world, e.g. CVS,
ssh, rsync etc.

Instead, on the Windows platform the preferred build
environment for GCL is MinGW with MSYS. See

  http://www.mingw.org/

MSYS provides a build environment rather like Linux/cygwin
with most of the same tools. But MSYS does not depend on
the cygwin dll to emulate unix and the programs built this way
run as true native windows applications instead of like unix
applications with an windows interface layer.

Anyway, the 2.5.2 and later versions of GCL compile in the
usual manner under MinGW/MSYS to produce a windows
executable. The current Axiom Makefile system "almost"
works except that the extra C language extensions for file and
path management need to be re-written to work with Windows.
I think these can be ignored for now. The other problem with
the Windows version of GCL is the XDR. This was not
supported under windows until the most recent build candidate
GCL 2.5.4 which is supposed to compile under Windows with
the ONC version of rpc/XDR library. With Mike's help I did
manage to link the ONC rpc libraries to the earlier version
GCL 2.5.2 that is included in the Axiom CVS. I was just playing
with this when it *suddenly* became possible to actually build
a full Axiom system unded Linux and that has distracted me
for the last few weeks - so no more progress under windows.

Good luck with Windows. <grin> Please let me know how
I can help. 

Bill Page.

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Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Automation & algebra lattice


> Bill,
> 
> I have a computer running XP and I've installed cygwin.
> Can you give me some idea of what tools you've set up to 
> compile Axiom?
> 
> Tim
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