Poll for macosx and windows users

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  On a related topic, do macosx users typically use macports,
homebrew, or compile on their own?  Likewise to windows users use cygwin
or compile on their own?

Take care,

David Scherfgen <d.scherfgen@googlemail.com> writes:

> Maybe a good compromise would be to:
> - not bundle GMP with GCL
> - use the system's libgmp by default
> - but allow the user to specify a specific GMP library when configuring, e.g. 
> --with-gmp=/path/to/custom/gmp
>
> That would allow users with an older OS to still build their up-to-date GMP 
> version locally (without installing it, which might cause trouble?) and make 
> GCL use
> that.
> Or maybe that's already possible with the current configuration script?
>
> Best regards
> David
>
> Am Sa., 22. Feb. 2025 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Robert Dodier 
> <robert.dodier@gmail.com>:
>
>  On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM Camm Maguire <camm@maguirefamily.org> wrote:
>
>  > I was actually thinking of removing the convenience copy of gmp, as it
>  > appears virtually everyone is dynamically linking against the system gmp
>  > shared library.
>
>  Camm, I'm an outsider to the GCL project, and I haven't been following
>  carefully. But anyway my advice is to avoid bundling GMP with GCL
>  itself, and link against an externally installed library.
>
>  That will work for any system which is less than some number of years
>  old. The trade off is that it might not work for very old systems
>  (where very old = at least 10 years old; maybe someone has a more
>  specific number).
>
>  I think that's an acceptable trade off. Maintaining backwards
>  compatibility means there's less time for moving forward --
>  essentially taking away from all newer systems to benefit a much
>  smaller number of old systems.
>
>  FWIW
>
>  Robert
>
>  PS. I guess one might find some inspiration in other Common Lisp
>  systems which make use of GMP or similar libraries -- I have no idea
>  which those are, or how they go about it.
>

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Camm Maguire                                        camm@maguirefamily.org
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