Re: [Axiom-mail] Aldor and Windows

[Mike Dewar]

We used to distribute both Axiom and Aldor on Windows - Axiom was
compiled with VC++ and Aldor (I think) worked with gcc as a back end.
To get a command-line version of Axiom going on Windows should be
straightforward if you have VC++ (and probably not too hard with gcc),
and shouldn't require cygwin.

I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a Windows version available from
aldor.org but there should be no major technical obstacles to producing
one. 

Cheers, Mike.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:37:35PM -0500, Bill Page wrote:
> Dr. Watt,
> 
> I am working with Tim Daly on the new open source version
> of Axiom, specifically I have offered to produce a version
> of Axiom that will run under Windows. To that end, I have
> been investigating both Cygwin and MinGW/Msys as potential
> platforms on which to build the windows version. There
> are pros and cons for both: a version of GCL (one of the
> Lisp platforms for Axiom) already exists that compiles
> under Msys, but Msys lacks the ability to run x-windows
> required to run the current version of TeXmacs which is
> one possible GUI for Axiom.
> 
> In any case, because of the relationship between Axiom
> and Aldor, I am also very interested in a version of Aldor
> that would run under Windows. Has any work been done on
> such a version of Aldor? If so, is there any way that I
> might help to make this generally available? Testing? Etc.
> If not, I would be quite interested in initiating such a
> project. The goal, of course would be to make Aldor
> available both as a stand alone compiler under Windows
> and also as the library compiler for the Windows version
> of Axiom.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> 
> 
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