[Texmacs-dev] Re: TeXmacs under Cygwin

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Dear Bill,

> I am working with Tim Daly on the development of the new
> open source version of Axiom. In particular, one of the
> tasks I have committed myself to is to ensuret that
> "OpenAxiom" runs under Windows with Cygwin and (probably
> later) under native Windows itself. As it is planned also
> to support TeXmacs as a front end to the new Axiom, I
> decided I would install TeXmacs under Cygwin as a first
> step.

Very good. Notice that some people have started to port TeXmacs
to Windows too.

> I am running the newest version of Cygwin 1.3.14(0.62/3/2)
> 2002-10-24 from Red Hat and I have downloaded the newest
> source version of TeXmacs 1.0.0.21 , but I have run into
> trouble during the compilation. Thanks to a web page I
> found via search engine at the texmacs site:
> 
>    http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Cygwin.html
> 
> I learned that I first had to install a newer version
> 1.4.1 of guile. Although doing this solved some problems,
> I still get a compiler error at the routine called "log2" -
> apparently some conflict in the name. The information at
> the above web page refers to a version 1.0.0.19 of
> texmacs which I can no longer find at the ftp site. At
> this time I am still stuck, unable to complete the make.
> 
> Could you let me know if anyone has successfully installed
> TeXmacs under Cygwin and if so, where can I find appropriate
> instructions?

The best thing to do would be to suscribe to the address@hidden
mailing list of TeXmacs developers and ask further questions there.
I have no experience with Cygwin myself, but several other people do.
You might also get an answer on the general mailing list later;
it sometimes takes a few days...

Best wishes, Joris