Thanks Alexander. I tried it and it works. But now I have decided to
install Linux (kubuntu) and only use windows if I really need it under a
virtual machine. Everything is now working much better for me. But for
anyone who needs to remain with windows and run GAP I can recommend
cygwin. Even though you do get a message like "unix binaries not
installed" or "some functions which need Unix will not run", like those
parts of GRAPE which use nauty, they actually do run!
josef
Alexander Konovalov wrote:
Dear Josef, dear GAP Forum,
The question below seems still unanswered in the Forum, and I think
posting an answer here may be useful for the Forum community even
if Josef (I hope!) already solved this problem.
Before starting xgap, first you need to build its binaries. Start
Cygwin shell, go to the gap4r4/pkg/xgap directory of your GAP
installation, and enter the following commands:
./configure
make
Then you need to start XGAP in X Windows, what you should be able
to do in a fairly complete Cygwin installation. Launch XTerm (it
may require starting X-Server separately first, or X-Server may
be started automatically when you call XTerm, dependently on the
particular setup), and then run gap4r4/pkg/xgap/bin/xgap.sh to
start XGAP.
Best wishes,
Alexander
On 17 Apr 2008, at 13:22, Josef Lauri wrote:
Hello,
I have installed gap under cygwin (running windows vista).
Installation and
compilation ran well and functions which could not run under my previous
windows installation of gap are now running fine. But I am having
problems
with xgap. When I call RequirePackage("xgap"); gap returns with the
message
"fail".
I would appreciate any tips.
Thank you.
Josef Lauri
University of Malta
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