<SNIP> > > Building Sage on Windows in Cygwin is not possible or supported. > > You can only build Sage from source under OSX or Linux, or by > > installing vmware and using Linux under Windows. > > I disagree. I bet it _is_possible_ to build sage on cygwin. What kind > of operating system distinctions does it use? Does it use windows or > graphics or sound? Or it works with hardware? There is no reason for > mathematical software not to work on cygwin. >
Hello Anton, the problem is not compiling Sage, but getting it to pass its test suite. Even before the libSingular problem, i.e. Sage 2.5.3 or so Sage never worked 100%. I did describe the problem in a detailed post earlier, but somehow Google groups seems to have eaten it. If it shows up you can read it then :) Anyway, we would love to have Sage compile *and* work on Cygwin again, but nobody has that on the top of their list of things to do. Provided William gets funding for this we will throw some resources at a native Sage on Windows, but that hasn't happen yet, and it is difficult to get funding to port mathematical open source software to Windows with MSVC. If you are willing to work on this let us know, we are certainly willing to get you started. The best way to do this is in IRC at #sage- devel on freenode. <SNIP> > Anton Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
