Greetings! I have followed your very helpful suggestion below, and restored the mingw32 build in a virtualbox.
As 64bit seems required nowadays, I've gotten cygwin64 ready as well, all up to well known and documented fork() failures which I have been unable to resolve up to now (after trying all FAQ's, etc.) Questions: 1) Is it not perhaps the path of least resistance for a windows user to simply run a virtual linux box for maxima? mingw and cygwin both have multiple stability problems. 2) In case you happen to know, when does Windows expire if not activated? 2_6_13pre otherwise ready to go out the door. Take care, Wolfgang Dautermann <wolfg...@dautermann.at> writes: > Am 08.11.22 um 22:59 schrieb Raymond Toy: >> I have a Virtualbox on linux that has a macos system on it. It >> works well enough to build cmucl, which is what I use it for on >> occasion. You can download the binaries for the macos for free from >> Apple's website. I think you have to buy a windows disc if you want >> to run windows. > > No, that is not necessary. One can download (and install) Windows ISO > Images directly from Microsoft: > https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/software-download/windows10ISO > or > https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/software-download/windows11 > > You don't have to provide your name or email. Installation works > without a 'product key' (on real PCs and in Virtualbox). > I believe, the installation does expire after some time, if it is not > 'activated', but in a virtual box one can just create a fresh > installation - for testing purposes (e.g. for my Maxima Windows > installers) I regulary *want* a fresh installation. > > Best regards, Wolfgang > > @Camm: you got my mails (with some feedback and patches)? > > > _______________________________________________ > Maxima-discuss mailing list > maxima-disc...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maxima-discuss > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
