David D. wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to install Fricas in Cygwin in windows vista, but I run > into an error (posted below). Can anyone tell me what I need to do to > get things working? > > I'm following the instructions in the INSTALL.CYGWIN file (I'm using > the version at > https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk/INSTALL.CYGWIN, > which I think is the right one). Things go fine until step 5. I get > the first error like the instructions say I probably will, but when I > do the second make, after a while (a couple hours) it fails with the > error below. I've tried three times, deleting and reinstalling cygwin > and starting from scratch each time. Is there something I can do to > fix it? >
This error looks like know problem with Cygwin/Windows. Cygwin needs to put some things at specific addresses in virtual memory and Windows is already using those addresses, making Cygwin to fail. The only workaround I know is to close other applications and re-try. Also, you may try building using release tarball -- build should be much faster and probability of failure lower. > Also, the top of the INSTALL.CYGWIN file says instead of doing it this > way I can just install by downloading the tarball (presumably > fricas-1.0.6.cygwin.tar.bz2). This seems like it would be easiest, > but I can't find detailed instructions anywhere how to do this. Maybe > it's supposed to be self-evident, but I'm not good with unix stuff, > and don't know what to do. > The instructions are at: http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt (see bottom part of the page, first part is about Linux) > Lastly, there's a windows installer at > http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FriCASBinaries, > which seems to work fine for me without requiring cygwin at all, but > it is an old release. If I may ask, why isn't this a part of the > regular distribution? Simple answer is that nobody did that: current Cygwin binaries were prepared by Martin Rubey. If somebody else prepared better binaries I would be happy to include them in the distribution. -- Waldek Hebisch hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 fricas-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
