[Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Axiom on Windows

[Mike Thomas]

Hi Bill.

Short on time here this arvo but a quick comment - it isn't readline, just
the normal Windows command line editing - on Windows 98 etc that won't be
present if I recall correctly?

Pleased to hear everything was fine for you!

Cheers

Mike Thomas.

| -----Original Message-----
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| Behalf Of Page, Bill
| Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:57 PM
| To: 'Mike Thomas'
| Cc: address@hidden Org; Bill Page; address@hidden; Root
| Subject: [Gcl-devel] Axiom on Windows
|
|
| Mike,
|
| On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:33 AM you wrote:
| >
| > The upload is complete, along with a copy of libgmp.dll and
| > gmp-static-mingw-4.1.tar.gz.
| >
|
| Great. I have downloaded it and completed a few tests. It
| seems to be fully functional. Congratulations!!!
|
| I was very pleasantly surprized to see that AXIOMsys under
| windows works with the usual 'gnu readline' line editing.
| So it seems we do not need to worry about the clef program.
|
| Since I know several other people are anxious to try Axiom
| on Windows, I just couldn't resist preparing a zip file
| directly from your uploaded files but containing just the
| minimum distribution files (about 45 Mbytes) and some simple
| instructions for a manual installation. See updated instructions
| here:
|
| http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/AxiomDownload
|
| Of course I have to emphasize to everyone that this is "use
| at your own risk" software. Axiom as a whole is still at the
| pre-release stage. But I think wider testing and feedback
| would be very useful.
|
| >
| > Surprisingly I was also able to just double click in Windows
| > Explorer on the "axiomSYS.exe" binary in
| > c:/cvs/head/mnt/windows/bin" and get AXIOM to work
| > without setting any environment variables - it found the
| > autoloads without problems.
| >
|
| That is because by default Axiom looks in the place where
| it was built for these files. So if you run it from where
| it was built, no problem. But if you move Axiom to another
| location (the usual case, e.g. c:\Program Files), then you
| must set the AXIOM environment variable
|
|   AXIOM=c:/Program Files/axiom/mnt/windows
|
| (See instructions on above web page).
|
| Note that it seems necessary that the slashes in this variable
| must be forward / not the usual windows backslash \.
|
| Regards,
| Bill Page.
|
|
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