Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: texmacs, guile, cygwin

[David Allouche]

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 15:40, Marciano Siniscalchi wrote:

> I guess it would now be a good time to produce Cygwin packages for
> Guile and TeXmacs, so that steps 3-6 can be skipped. IMHO, running
> TeXmacs should be a sufficient reason to install Cygwin/Xfree...
>
> I am unable to do so at this time, but it would be great if somebody
> were to take the plunge...
>
> Also, if anybody is willing to reproduce the above steps, it would be
> very useful.

Maybe I will have a look next week. I have to make another iteration for 
the removal of gencc (with another round of compile test).

> Joris---it would be nice to have TeXmacs use DLLs, but this requires
> substantial tinkering with the Makefile's. Generating Win32 DLL's
> directly from gcc does not appear to be possible at this time.

That is no longer a problem. The new compile system has no target to 
produce what used to be DYNAMIC_TEXMACS. Now the default target builds 
what used to be MIXED_TEXMACS, that version do use dynamic linking, but 
only to system libraries and GUILE.

In the future, TeXmacs will be properly modularized (with a designed 
API), then we will consider a librarized TeXmacs again. Anyway the 
GNU-correct way to do it is by using libtool, so library compilation 
would have to be redone anyway. And I think that if libtool does not 
properly support Cygwin, that is a bug worth fixing.
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                                  -- David --