Hi Chris,
some experience of mine that might help.
1. Some time ago I tried really hard to compile GNU APL with the
(standard?) Microsoft C++
compiler so that GNU APL runs natively under Windows. I don't remember
which compiler
(there seems to be a few of them), but I got thousands of errors and
warnings, most of them
rather stupid and some of them really hard to fix while maintaining
compatibility of the code
with the gcc compiler.
2. Regarding cygwin, it very much looks like you need it only to build
GNU APL (since it has the
necessary development tools (autoconf, m4, ...) to do so. Once you habe
produced the GNU APL
binary under cygwin you can link it with one or two of the libraries
that come with cygwin. The
result of that seems to run properly in the Windows cmd.exe (don't
recall which Windows version
I tried.
3. Be warned: The standard C++ development environment in Windows is
quite a mess and
far more complicated than the standard GNU APL build system. Without
autoconf/automake
you will need to do many changes in Makefiles and header files so that
they compile. And several
GNU APL goodies (⎕FFT, ⎕PNG, ⎕XML) may not be available under Windows
because the
corresponding libraries are missing.
4. I believe that NARS (*https://www.nars2000.org*) is a free
interpreter that runs under Windows
and is, like GNU APL, free (both are licensed under the GPLv3) . Most
commercial APL vendors offer
Windows based APL imterpreters which are free of charge for private use
but not free because they
come with limitations as to their use.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 3/29/24 18:47, Chris Moller wrote:
First, due to my old ISP having apparently gone out of business while
keeping my mollerware.com domain locked, my old mol...@mollerware.com
address is at least temporarily dead. I'm mol...@nc.rr.com for the
moment.
Second, is there a Windows version of APL that runs without using
Cygwin? My son has need of it--he's stuck in a benighted environment
that refuses to acknowledge the existence of Linux.
Thanks,
Chris
