Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs on Cygwin finally runs - How can I contribute in the further development?

[David Allouche]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> > >Since log2 conflicts with a name known to gcc
> > >and isn't really needed anyway, I just changed
> > >'log2' to 'log2x' on line 17.
> > 
> > IMHO, this part lacks the change of 'log2' to 'log2x' in line 196.
> 
> OK, I fixed this (patch 706).
> 
> As to a nice web-page for installing TeXmacs on Cygwin:
> I am willing to put it on the main site, but one should first
> write a page in a similar style as the other installation pages;
> one should not forget that these pages should also address
> non-experts. I started to create such a page
> 
>       http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Cygwin.html

Maybe the better thing to do is to fix the existing installer first.

I posted a patch fixing the linking problems, now compiling TeXmacs on
Cygwin should be a simple matter of running "./configure && make &&
make install".

There are still problems with STATIC_TEXMACS, but that should not bite
the casual user anymore.

After that, platform specific installation instruction is just a
matter of telling how to install the required dependences.
 

> Thanks for your proposal to help us :^) In order to start,
> you might want to try to interface TeXmacs with GNUplot.
> Of course I have many more ideas, but I think that this will
> be a good entrypoint for you.

Don't you think it would be a good thing to document those ideas you
have? Currently understanding the development direction of TeXmacs is
a real detective work. Maybe the task manager would be an appropriate
support, maybe something else would be needed.

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