Hi Rick, Thursten just FYI, both 32 and 64-bit PicoLisp compiles and runs pretty much transparently on the new "Windows Subsystem for Linux".
Haven't tried using database yet, though. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Rick Hanson <cryptor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Thorsten wrote: > > Hi List, > > Hi, Thorsten ! > > > I just discovered a nice article by Joe Bogner about FLINUX as an > > alternative was to run PicoLisp under Windows > > (http://picolisp.com/wiki/? flinuxpicolisp). > > > > I tried it out, and succeded to a certain point but not further. > > > > When installing necessary tools like wget, make etc. I often hit the > > "could not change the root directory (No such file or directory)" > > error, but it appeared after the last installation step, and after > > an C-c installation appeared successful. > > > > But when trying to compile the 64bit version, Java is missing, and > > when I try to install it, I get the above error in the middle of the > > installation process that thus cannot finish. > > > > There is some info about this > > (https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux/issues/63), but I could not > > really find a solution. Did somebody on the list succeed with the > > Flinux install of the 64bit version on Windows? > > I'm not aware. It looks as if his article > > http://picolisp.com/wiki/?flinuxpicolisp > > was only meant for 32-bit pil builds. > > On the other hand and on the topic of Windows 64-bit pil builds, Joe > is currently working on and very close to a solution based on midipix. > > http://www.midipix.org/#sec-midipix > > He has been working closely with the midipix author for many weeks now > (back and forth on IRC) to iron out particular problems with getting > pil ported there. > > There is not much in the way of documentation yet, but Joe has > cataloged some pil patches related to the midipix build here: > > https://github.com/joebo/picoLisp-win-x86-64 > > (and there might be more he has not pushed yet; not entirely sure.) > > At any rate, when we see Joe (joebo) on #picolisp let's remind > ourselves to ask him to update us about it here on the ML. > > > Any hints would be welcome. > > Cheers > > Thorsten > > Best, --Rick > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > -- With best wishes, Oleksandr Nikitin skype: wizzard0
