On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * 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? I am not sure... Do we ask the user if they have cygwin installed? and if yes, then we place fricas in the cygwin path? (I guess we also need to ask, where is cygwin installed) If not, then we proceed as we do now. Sorry if I cannot help much with this, but I currently do not have a cygwin env. to compile Fricas. PS: Ideally I would think we want a native app with Mingw (I think currently Fricas does not build with Mingw) and hopefully in the future *somebody* would reach the holy grail of porting Hyperdoc to Windows. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
