Re: CLISP on Windows

[Wolfgang D. <wol...@da...>]

Am 03.11.24 um 15:31 schrieb Bruno Haible:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> Please keep the mailing list in CC.

Hi Bruno,
yes, sorry.

> For Maxima, the version 2.49 should be entirely sufficient (on
> platforms that were supported back then).

Yes, it works without problems. 'Crosscompiling' Lisp programs seems to 
be a crazy idea (I did know nearly nothing about Lisp back then), and I 
tried various Lisp's - and Clisp was the first one, that worked.

Now other Lisp's are supported too in my installer, but of course Clisp
is used too.

> The situation of the Windows port is currently a mess, because it is
> focused on the MSVC compiler (whereas mingw-w64 is now generally the
> better approach) on old versions of that compiler, on nmake rather
> than GNU make, with way too much code for cross-compiling.
> 
> This will take a while to clean up.

Thanks in advance.

> And the NSIS-based installer for Windows is also out-of-date; maybe
> people can just unpack a zip instead?

I use the zip file clisp-2.49-win32-mingw-big.zip from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clisp/files/clisp/2.49/ - so, of
course, a zip file is great, an installer is not needed. Most people 
should be able to extract zip files, especially developers...

For my 'crosscompiliation-procedure' I extract also (NSIS and
MSI-)installers like an archive (using 7z).

Best regards, Wolfgang