Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
>
> >> And what does it mean "instructions for 1.0.8"? Do you mean the
> >> INSTALL.CYGWIN file?
> >
> > No. INSTALL.CYGWIN is about compiling FriCAS. I mean
> >
> > http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt
>
> > The last part deals with installing binary. I do not know if
> > just pointing Cygwin installer on FriCAS tarball will work, but
> > almost surely you need to install mentioned parts of Cygwin
> > before the binary will work.
>
> In Devel: gcc-mingw
> gcc-mingw-core
>
> Why do I need a C compiler to run the fricas binary? Are you saying
> there is some compilation involved?
>
> In Math: clisp
>
> Why clisp and not sbcl?
The Cygwin binary is build on top of clisp.
> I havent' yet looked at it but isn't the binary
> just something that I have to extract?
>
> In Publishing: psutils
> tetex
> tetex-base
> tetex-bin
> tetex-extra
> tetex-tiny
> tetex-x11
> I need to install tex into cygwin so that FriCAS will work? You don't
> mean that.
>
> In X11: xterm
> xinit
> font-adobe-dpi75
>
> That's from cygwin, right? Where does that xming come in? Sorry, but
> Windows isn't my primary system. And I would favour a better description
> of the steps.
>
> In Editors: emacs
> emacs-X11
>
> OK, but is should be marked as optional. And the efricas script that
> comes with the .tbz tarball should deal with the case that emacs is not
> installed and simply call fricas without emacs (maybe giving a hint that
> one should install emacs).
The instructions were made by Martin Rubey. AFAICS he selected
set of packages that worked for him and his students. It is
tempting to drop some packages as unneeded, but first one should
check...
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Waldek Hebisch
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