Dear Christopher, Dear Tim, Tim, thanks for forwarding.
Christopher, "Christopher Scholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any possibility to download sources for windows? the quick answer: svn co https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk fricas Concerning the detailed answer, read on: I guess you want to build from scratch? In case, I attach step by step instructions for downloading and building using CYGWIN below. FriCAS should also work with MinGW, but currently (as far as I know), you won't get graphics nor HyperDoc (the help facility), so if you are mainly interested in "using" FriCAS, I guess Cygwin is the better bet. There is yet another alternative, which is called "andLinux". Bill Page knows about it. There is a cygwin binary produced by Alfredo Portes, I can't find the link right now but I'm sure he'd be glad to help. If you encounter any difficulties, please don't hesitate to ask. I'm grateful for every bit that improves the MS Windows port! Finally, note that below we use CLISP as Common Lisp implementation. In principle, it should work with any Common Lisp (supported: * GCL, 2.6.7 or prerelease 2.6.8 * sbcl, 1.0.7 or later * clisp, 2.41 or later * openmcl, 1.1 prerelase 070512 or later * ECL, 0.9j or later) with a little patching, of which sbcl should be fastest. Hope this helps, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALL.CYGWIN: These instructions show you how to build FriCAS on MS Windows from the sources in the subversion repository. You may want to consider building FriCAS from a distribution tarball instead, which contains pregenerated algebra Lisp, HyperDoc pages and graphic examples. Moreover, using the tarball the build is much faster - a few minutes instead of a few hours. You can get a tarball via http://fricas.sourceforge.net/download.html First of all, do not be afraid! The instructions below probably look more intimidating than they really should be. In case something goes wrong, do not hesitate to ask at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To compile FriCAS on MS Windows, we proceed as follows: I) If you do not have cygwin installed, go to http://cygwin.com/ Look for a link called setup.exe and save it to disk. II) Start cygwin's setup program. The first few questions can be answered with the default values, until you get to the "Select Packages" dialog. Clicking on a little + will expand the list of packages. You should select apart from the defaults the following: (DISCLAIMER: this list is likely to be overkill. Also note that selecting will also select many packages they depend on, this should happen automatically.) In Devel: gcc-mingw gcc-mingw-core make patchutils subversion In Math: clisp In Publishing: psutils tetex tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra tetex-tiny tetex-x11 In Web: wget In X11: xterm xorg-x11-devel optional In Editors: emacs (see V) emacs-X11 Complete the cygwin installation process. III) start cygwin - a black console window should appear find a place to build FriCAS. cd /cygdrive/c mkdir scratch cd scratch (it is essential that the path to scratch does not contain any spaces. Otherwise the build won't work...) IV) follow the instructions in INSTALL (but note that we are going to build axiom using clisp), that is: 1) Fetch sources: svn co https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk fricas 2) Fetch nonstandard prerequisites: cd fricas mkdir zips cd zips wget https://axiom.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk/axiom/zips/noweb-2.10a.tgz or, if this doesn't work: wget --no-check-certificate https://axiom.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk/axiom/zips/noweb-2.10a.tgz 3) create the build directory (again: without spaces!) cd ../.. mkdir ax-build cd ax-build 4) configure. Possibly, you will have to restrict the PATH to Cygwin programs, because otherwise configure may pick, for example, Borland grep which causes failure later. You can do this by typing export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin ../configure --with-lisp=clisp 5) build and install: make make will very likely fail with an error like mkdir /dev/null 2>/dev/null make[1]: [install-elisp] Error 1 (ignored) cp elisp/noweb-mode.el /dev/null cp: cannot create regular file `/dev/null': Invalid request code make[1]: *** [install-elisp] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/scratch/ax-build/noweb/src' make: *** [stamp-noweb] Error 2 we ignore this error (which occurs because the ELISP environment variable is set to /dev/null) touch stamp-noweb make 6) make the graphics examples: IMPORTANT NOTE: this step failed when I tried. After the first drawing appeared and disappeared, it did not continue. The example graphics are in no way essential though and can be easily reproduced in the installed system. 6a) start X: sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh a new (white) console should appear 6b) run the examples cd /cygwin/c/scratch/ax-build/src/paste make gphts at this point (which will take a while), graphics should appear and disappear. cd ../.. make 7) install make install V) you may want to install the emacs mode coming with FriCAS. In this case you need to: 1) start cygwin's setup program again and select the packages: In Editors: emacs emacs-X11 2) extract the emacs mode cd /cygwin/c/scratch/ax-build cp ../fricas/src/scripts/tex/axiom.sty . cp ../fricas/contrib/emacs/axiom.el.pamphlet . build/scripts/document axiom.el.pamphlet you should obtain two files: axiom.el and axiom.el.dvi. The latter contains the documentation of the mode and can be viewed with any dvi viewer. 3) install the emacs mode and optionally a startup script: cp axiom.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp cp ../fricas/contrib/emacs/eaxiom /usr/bin 4) if you installed the startup script, you can start axiom now with eaxiom or sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh eaxiom _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer