[Axiom-developer] Re: mingw

[Bill Page]

Tim,

I would suggest that you obtain GCL 2.5.4 from the CVS and next
attempt to compile and install it under Windows using MinGW and
MSYS. Although it is still pre-release, it should compile with
no problems. 2.5.4 is supposed to include support for the XDR
extensions under windows (which is needed for Axiom) but you
must first install the ONC version of XDR. I can send this to
you. I successfully installed XDR under 2.5.3 on Windows, but
it was a little involved.

Once you have a running version of GCL with XDR under Windows,
you will be almost ready to attempt to build Axiom. But you
most add the GCL dir so that the Axiom Makefile does not
attempt to build a new version of GCL from the older sources
and also arrange that GCL can be run from the place that
the Axiom Makefile expects to find it.

All this isn't particulary hard, but if you really are new
to Windows you will no doubt find the transition to this
environment a little frustrating. Let me know if you have
questions.

Bill Page.


On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 00:20, root wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> Well, Windows XP lives.
> MinGW lives.
> Hello, World works.
> Any advice?
> 
> Tim
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