Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] RE: GCL 2.6.1 on Windows XP

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Mike, do you have a moment to upload a binary without the
path hard-coding? 

Take care,

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> Hello Bill,
> 
> > > http://people.debian.org/~camm/gcl/stable-binary/gcl_2.6.1.min
> > > gw32_japi_xdr_20030929.zip
> > > 
> > > Unzip it and run the install program. It installed and
> > > runs under Windows XP for me with no problems (although
> > > an earlier version did fail on the install unless you
> > > installed it into a directory named c:/lang).
> > > 
> > 
> > I have just tried this and I see that the problem with the
> > install directory still exists. When the install scripts
> > asks where you want to install GCL, tell it
> > 
> >   c:/lang/gcl261
> > 
> > instead of the default, then the install will complete
> > normally.
> 
> Yes you are right, the script that creates gcl.bat during the installation 
> seems to be broken? The only difference I saw between an installation in 
> c:\lang\gcl261 and another directory is that the c:\lang\gcl261\bin 
> directory contains 2 more files gcl.bat and gcl.pif. If for some reason 
> specific to Axiom you need to use gcl from another directory than 
> lang/gcl261, it seems that you can just move the whole directory 
> c:\lang\gcl261 to your new directory, and add the following file gcl.bat 
> in directory "NewDirectory\bin" (with the example directory  
> C:\programs\gcl-2.6.1):
> 
> ------------------- gcl.bat
> @echo off
> rem Define the main directory of gcl
> set W$=c:\programs\gcl-2.6.1
> rem set C_INCLUDE_PATH=%W$%\lib\gcl-2.6.1\h
> path %W$%\mingw\bin;%PATH%
> start %W$%\lib\gcl-2.6.1\unixport\saved_gcl.exe -dir %W$%/lib/gcl-
> 2.6.1/unixport/ -libdir %W$%/lib/gcl-2.6.1/ -eval "(setq si::*allow-
> gzipped-file* t)" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> ------------------- End of gcl.bat
> 
> This works for me on Windows 98SE, I suppose it would run too under any 
> version of Windows NT (4.0, 2000 or XP)
> 
> It think one can comment the line with C_INCLUDE_PATH, at least as long as 
> gcl.bat just runs the executable for gcl. I don't think the env variable 
> for gcc compiler is of any use to run the executable? Or is it for some 
> reason I am unaware of ?.  Anyway, on Win98, gcl can be run without this 
> var being defined.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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