On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, 03:16 Qian Yun, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for everyone's reply, I'll give Cygwin another try.
>
> I don't have much experience of Common Lisp on Windows, so
> please correct me if I'm wrong or missed something.
>
> Current status:
>
> Clisp : can't save core with ":executable t".  Seems Maxima
> on Windows uses with ":executable nil" though.
>
> SBCL: SBCL actually runs in Cygwin, but it uses windows style
> path like "c:\sbcl" and doesn't recognize Cygwin style path like
> "/cygdrive/c/sbcl", which is confusing for me and unable to
> compile FriCAS.
>
> ECL: easy to compile ecl from source.  Don't know why upstream
> doesn't provide binaries or why Cygwin doesn't include it.
> Currently I'm building FriCAS with it, but compile time is
> much longer than SBCL on msys2/mingw64.  It took me 70 minutes
> on a 8 core windows VM, over 10 times longer than SBCL.
>

part of the slowdown you see is due to Cygwin slowness (compared to native
Windows or Linux), as it does POSIX emulation, part due to ECL doing a
2-stage compilation (to C first, with the resulting C code compiled by gcc).



> The compile process is smooth, and result binary can run
> HyperDoc without problems.
>
> ======
>
> Have not tried other lisps yet.
>
> I didn't try to build docs or graphic example files, so I
> decide to remove relevant sections in doc.
>
> - Qian
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