RE: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements on cygwin

[Bill Page]

On November 27, 2006 12:31 AM Gaby wrote:
> 
> 
> "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> | On November 26, 2006 4:14 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > 
> | > I would like to test build-improvements on cygwin, but 
> | > gcl-2.6.8pre (and gcl-2.6.7) would not compile there. If
> | > you know of the status of GCL on cygwin, please tell me;
> | > otherwise, I fear Axiom on cygwin will be delayed till I have
> | > time to work on GCL for cygwin (which will be none this year). 
> | > 
> | 
> | gcl-2.6.8pre compiles natively under Windows using MSYS/MinGW.
> | cygwin is not necessary.
> 
> Well, I installed all I would find on mingw website.  The 
> configure for GCL-2.6.8pre failed because it could not find
> some of the basic standard headers.

I built GCL and AXIOMsys on Windows recently (last month). It
should still work. How to setup MSYS/MinGW to compile GCL and
Axiom is described here:

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/BuildAxiom

Once built, GCL call be called from cygwin if you wish. This
would be necessary for example to build the parts of Axiom that
depend on pty (like sman) since there is no pty under native
windows.

> Meanwhile, I learnt what -mno-cygwin can trick GCC to do.
> I'm falling back to that.

Yes, I think it should be possible to cross-compile from cygwin
but that seems like a lot of trouble. If you get this to work
then please let me know.

Regards,
Bill Page.