Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> writes:

>> I have now built FriCAS on cygwin also with ecl, this seems to work.
>> 
>> I don't have much time left - should I only make the ecl based binary
>> available?  (It requires installing gcc, unfortunately)
>>
>
> It makes sense to have only one package: users typically find
> confusing if they have to choose between two packages.  The
> main thing is to have working one -- if ecl works fine then
> I would just provide ecl-based one.  

OK.

> AFAIK cygwin clisp does not
> support Windows style paths (at least in ')cd'), if ecl supports
> then that would be an improvements.  

I did not check yet...

> Also, ecl shuld be generally faster.

Indeed.  Only startup is much slower, because a lot of loading messages
are printed.

>> Martin Rubey <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > 
>> >
>> >     module syszcalls requires package os
>> >
>> > error *after* make install.  Is there a simple workaround just for the
>> > release?
>> >
>
> On Unix this typically happens if you accidentally strip binaries.
> Check size of AXIOMsys, if it is very small, then it was stripped
> (on 64-bit Linux clisp based AXIOMsys has 17 MB, cygwin version
> should be smaller, but not much).

I think it was 14 MB, but in any case the working AXIOMsys (in build
directory fri-build/target/...) and the installed one had the same size.
However, the installed one is lacking the .exe extension.

Martin
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