Camm, thanks for the info about Wine & Maxima. I set up the binfmt stuff to recognize .exe files and it seems to work as intended (.exe is indeed executed via Wine) but I get the same error about msys.
I don't understand the logic of detect_wine -- I don't see how it could succeed. Maybe you can help me understand it. I tried to execute just GCL itself by installing GCL 2.6.9 ANSI from the download page for the GCL project. The installer runs OK (some warnings) but saved_ansi_gcl.exe fails with the same error which originates in detect_wine. Here's how it reads when I try to execute saved_ansi_gcl.exe: Can't recognize 'c:/_cvs/gcl/lib/gcl-2.6.9/unixport/msys /tmp/ out8 tmp8 log8' as an internal or external command, or batch script. I see that the installer installed msys.exe in the folder GCL-2.6.9-ANSI/unixport, but saved_ansi_gcl.exe tries to execute c:/_cvs/gcl/lib/gcl-2.6.9/unixport/msys instead. Looks like the immediate problem is that *SYSTEM-DIRECTORY* is not assigned a local path name but gets a hardcoded value (something set at build time, I guess) instead. Reading o/main.c, I see that GCL will accept a command line argument for *SYSTEM-DIRECTORY* if initflag == 0, which is not the case for saved images but is for raw images, according to a comment in main.c. So ... I can get a little farther by executing raw_ansi_gcl.exe. wine ./drive_c/ProgramFiles/GCL-2.6.9-ANSI/unixport/raw_ansi_gcl.exe `pwd`/drive_c/ProgramFiles/GCL-2.6.9-ANSI/unixport/ GCL (GNU Common Lisp) April 1994 131071 pages Building symbol table for Z:/home/robert/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/GCL-2.6.9-ANSI/unixport/raw_ansi_gcl.exe .. loading /home/robert/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/GCL-2.6.9-ANSI/unixport/../lsp/gcl_export.lsp Then it just sits there until I hit ctrl-C. strace shows that it seems to be repeatedly reading from z:/tmp/out8 which has the content ar x /home/robert/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/GCL-2.6.9-ANSI/unixport/libansi_gcl.a gcl_defmacro.o I guess this is related to scheme implemented by msys -- not sure how this is supposed to play out. Thanks for any light you can shed on this. best Robert Dodier _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
