I was trying to make INSTALL.CYGWIN up to date. One serious problem occurs:
The cygwin version of clisp contains a patch from March 2015 that says "Don't allow saving executable memory images on Cygwin". Don't know why cygwin developer choose to apply this, but it effectively makes building FriCAS on Cygwin more difficult. The problem is, shall we still support Cygwin at all? (Clearly, no one have built FriCAS successful on Cygwin with Clisp for the past 6 years.) Advantages: 1. Cygwin can have HyperDoc with X11. 2. Clisp is packaged by Cygwin. But this advantage is gone now. Disadvantages: 1. Clisp on Cygwin is slow, and not have a release for years. 2. Cygwin is not as portable as msys2/mingw64. So, if we choose to support Cygwin, we may need to use ecl, ccl, or a unmodified clisp. - Qian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/8765c74e-7b93-b05d-4b76-73e869d653dd%40gmail.com.
