On Thursday, 26 October 2017 12:28:22 UTC+2, oldk1331 wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Grégory Vanuxem <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Can CLisp dump a file???? 
>
> Clisp 2.49 on linux can.  But that is released 7 years ago. 
>
> The cygwin version is a 2015 snapshot and it can't dump. 
> It gives an error message doesn't exist in version 2.49. 
>
> I can't build ECL-16.1.3 on cygwin either. 
>

I had no problems on x86_64 Cygwin (git from 
https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl.git)
$ ecl --version
ECL 16.1.3
 

>
> On the other hand, I don't think building on cygwin has any advantage. 
> It can provide user-unfriendly hyperdoc and graphics that Linux users 
> seldom use. 
>

Indeed :)
However, you can use it with texmacs or sage.
 

>
> On that matter, mingw provides next to nothing: without hyperdoc and 
> graphics, only clef is lefted. 
>

MSYS2/MingW64 looks promising.
 

>
> So, I'm thinking about a new packaging method for Windows: 
> distribute FriCAS like a Lisp application.  In FriCAS release tarball, 
> there are already pre-generated Lisp files.  I think it's possible 
> to package FriCAS as a Lisp program, just like Maxima. 
> One step further, maybe bundle TeXmacs with FriCAS. 
>

That's an idea. I also think this is feasible. I did some experiments and 
eventually managed to get it working with ABCL/JVM (a longstanding dream),
https://github.com/nilqed/fricas0/releases
There are still some ceveats which might be overcome with the help of the 
few adepts ;)
 

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