From: Mike T. <mi...@br...> - 2002-11-22 03:52:53
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Hi Bill. > Ok, I have no particularly strong reason to continue > with Cygwin. My current goal is to support the open > source version of Axiom with both Codemist CCL and GCL > on a Windows platform and I just considered Cygwin as > a logical "half-way" point. It may be worth your while to also consider CLISP and Corman Common Lisp. > Since GCL can already be built on both Linux and Windows > (with mingw), the only problem is CCL. CCL should be > relatively easy to port, but my initial worry would > be the use of SUN rpc in CCL. I am quite sure there is > no port of this version of rpc to native Windows, is > there? I even had trouble finding one that works with > Cygwin. http://www.plt.rwth-aachen.de/ks/english/oncrpc.html I once built this package with Mingw32 for the pre-agreed price of a packet of potato chips for my youngest daughter as a result of a mialing list discussion about open source programming. (These duly arrived by surface mail several months later along with other yummy tidbits and a reply package is on it's way!) I haven't used it as I have no interest in such things so I can't claim it will meet your needs, but try it out. I can package and send the prebuilt version if you wish. > But I suppose there > is no reason (in principle) why one could not support > TeXmacs under Cygwin with access to the Windows native > version of Axiom. In principle (I don't know what TeXMacs is) that should be fine and is one of the beauties of using a native Windows build of Axiom rather than getting hooked on the Cygwin dll. Best of luck Mike Thomas. |