Re: [Axiom-developer] windows sources

[Martin Rubey]

Dear Christopher, Dear Tim,

Tim, thanks for forwarding.

Christopher,

"Christopher Scholz" <address@hidden> writes:

> is there any possibility to download sources for windows?

the quick answer:

  svn co https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk fricas

Concerning the detailed answer, read on:

I guess you want to build from scratch?  In case, I attach step by step
instructions for downloading and building using CYGWIN below.

FriCAS should also work with MinGW, but currently (as far as I know), you won't
get graphics nor HyperDoc (the help facility), so if you are mainly interested
in "using" FriCAS, I guess Cygwin is the better bet.

There is yet another alternative, which is called "andLinux".  Bill Page knows
about it.

There is a cygwin binary produced by Alfredo Portes, I can't find the link
right now but I'm sure he'd be glad to help.

If you encounter any difficulties, please don't hesitate to ask.  I'm grateful
for every bit that improves the MS Windows port!  Finally, note that below we
use CLISP as Common Lisp implementation.  In principle, it should work with any
Common Lisp (supported: 
    * GCL, 2.6.7 or prerelease 2.6.8 
    * sbcl, 1.0.7 or later
    * clisp, 2.41 or later
    * openmcl, 1.1 prerelase 070512 or later
    * ECL, 0.9j or later)
with a little patching, of which sbcl should be fastest.

Hope this helps,

Martin


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INSTALL.CYGWIN:

These instructions show you how to build FriCAS on MS Windows from the sources
in the subversion repository.  You may want to consider building FriCAS from a
distribution tarball instead, which contains pregenerated algebra Lisp,
HyperDoc pages and graphic examples.  Moreover, using the tarball the build is
much faster - a few minutes instead of a few hours.  You can get a tarball via
http://fricas.sourceforge.net/download.html

First of all, do not be afraid!  The instructions below probably look more
intimidating than they really should be.  In case something goes wrong, do not
hesitate to ask at address@hidden

To compile FriCAS on MS Windows, we proceed as follows:

I) If you do not have cygwin installed, go to

    http://cygwin.com/

    Look for a link called setup.exe and save it to disk.

II) Start cygwin's setup program.  The first few questions can be answered with
    the default values, until you get to the "Select Packages" dialog.

    Clicking on a little + will expand the list of packages. You should select
    apart from the defaults the following:

    (DISCLAIMER: this list is likely to be overkill.  Also note that selecting
    will also select many packages they depend on, this should happen
    automatically.)

           In Devel: gcc-mingw
                     gcc-mingw-core
                     make
                     patchutils
                     subversion
           In Math:    clisp
           In Publishing: psutils
                          tetex
                          tetex-base
                          tetex-bin
                          tetex-extra
                          tetex-tiny
                          tetex-x11
           In Web: wget
           In X11: xterm
                   xorg-x11-devel
optional   In Editors: emacs
(see V)                emacs-X11

    Complete the cygwin installation process.

III) start cygwin - a black console window should appear


  find a place to build FriCAS.

  cd /cygdrive/c
  mkdir scratch
  cd scratch

    (it is essential that the path to scratch does not contain any spaces.
    Otherwise the build won't work...)

IV) follow the instructions in INSTALL (but note that we are going to build
    axiom using clisp), that is:

    1) Fetch sources:

  svn co https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk fricas
 

    2) Fetch nonstandard prerequisites:

  cd fricas
  mkdir zips
  cd zips
  wget 
https://axiom.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk/axiom/zips/noweb-2.10a.tgz

    or, if this doesn't work:

  wget --no-check-certificate 
https://axiom.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk/axiom/zips/noweb-2.10a.tgz

    3) create the build directory (again: without spaces!)

  cd ../..
  mkdir ax-build
  cd ax-build
 
    4) configure.  Possibly, you will have to restrict the PATH to Cygwin
        programs, because otherwise configure may pick, for example, Borland
        grep which causes failure later.  You can do this by typing

  export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

  ../configure --with-lisp=clisp

    5) build and install:

  make

    make will very likely fail with an error like

      mkdir /dev/null 2>/dev/null
      make[1]: [install-elisp] Error 1 (ignored)
      cp elisp/noweb-mode.el /dev/null
      cp: cannot create regular file `/dev/null': Invalid request code
      make[1]: *** [install-elisp] Error 1
      make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/scratch/ax-build/noweb/src'
      make: *** [stamp-noweb] Error 2

    we ignore this error (which occurs because the ELISP environment variable
    is set to /dev/null)

  touch stamp-noweb
  make

     6) make the graphics examples:

        IMPORTANT NOTE: this step failed when I tried.  After the first drawing
        appeared and disappeared, it did not continue.  The example graphics
        are in no way essential though and can be easily reproduced in the
        installed system.

     6a) start X:

  sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh

        a new (white) console should appear

     6b) run the examples

  cd /cygwin/c/scratch/ax-build/src/paste
  make gphts

        at this point (which will take a while), graphics should appear and
       disappear.

  cd ../..
  make

  
     7) install

  make install

V) you may want to install the emacs mode coming with FriCAS.  In this case you
   need to:

     1) start cygwin's setup program again and select the packages:

           In Editors: emacs
                       emacs-X11

     2) extract the emacs mode

  cd /cygwin/c/scratch/ax-build
  cp ../fricas/src/scripts/tex/axiom.sty .
  cp ../fricas/contrib/emacs/axiom.el.pamphlet .
  build/scripts/document axiom.el.pamphlet 

        you should obtain two files: axiom.el and axiom.el.dvi.  The latter
        contains the documentation of the mode and can be viewed with any dvi
        viewer.

     3) install the emacs mode and optionally a startup script:

  cp axiom.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
  cp ../fricas/contrib/emacs/eaxiom /usr/bin


     4) if you installed the startup script, you can start axiom now with

  eaxiom

        or

  sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
  eaxiom