[Axiom-developer] Axiom for Windows on GCL-2.6.8pre (was: Google Code repository)

[Page, Bill]

On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:15 AM I wrote:
> ... 
> gcl-2.6.8pre does compile on Windows with one minor change. But
> my first attempt to use it to compile the Axiom windows sources
> fails with a data type conflict on MYCOMBINE in src/interp/
> cfuns.lisp.pamphlet which is partly coded in C embedded in
> Lisp and partly in Lisp.
> 
> This seems similar to a problem that Camm solved with using
> 2.6.8pre on linux.
> 

Some good news. With the patches supplied by Camm in:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-08/msg00344.ht
ml

and removing the out-of-date patches which have since been
incorporated into gcl, the darcs axiom--windows--1 source code
seems to be compiling using the new gcl-2.6.8pre. I now expect it
to complete successfully (I will confirm in a couple of hours).

This means that at least we will be able to work with the same
version of gcl in both Linux and Windows once Camm officially
releases 2.6.8. The Windows version of Axiom was last successfully
compiled only with a patched version of gcl-2.6.5.

Regards,
Bill Page.