Martin, On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: > Dear Alfredo, Bill, > > I have now everything together what I need, but I am completely lost > how to prepare this windows binary. I do not understand the nsis > script.
For information about NSIS refer to http://nsis.sourceforge.net The script mostly just lists what files to include in the installation. The rest of the installation process is handled by NSIS default behavior. > Does it install the X server etc. as well? No. That is a separate optional step. As explain here: http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FriCASBinaries See http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/Xming > > On http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FriCASBinaries I find > > Alfredo Portes has prepared a full binary version of FriCAS in cygwin on > Windows (including Hyperdoc and Graphics). This has been packaged as > a WindowsInstaller program with the minimum number of libraries required > to allow FriCAS to run under native Windows. It does not require that > cygwin also be installed. > > I am able to compile and run FriCAS under Cygwin/Windows XP (following > the instructions in INSTALL.CYGWIN), and I would like to distribute a > "binary", whatever that is, so that HyperDoc and graphics work. > > * How can I do that? > As I said previously, please read this: http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/WindowsInstaller > * What happens, if the user has cygwin already installed? > That is a bad situation - at least it was with the previous version of the FriCAS windows install program that Alfredo distributed. FriCAS will work as it should but the result will be a broken installation of cygwin. The problem is that the install program invisibly mounts some directories are necessary to run FriCAS but these are incompatible with cygwin itself. Right now if you have cygwin installed it would be better to install/build a version of FriCAS specifically for running within the cygwin environment. Maybe there is a way to make the installation program smarter and do this automatically - Alfredo, what do you think? > * would this work only on XP, or also on Vista? > It *should* work with Vista but I have only used it on XP. Please let us know if you have success with Vista. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
