The GAP project provides a native Windows installer <https://github.com/gap-system/gap/releases/download/v4.13.0/gap-4.13.0-x86_64.exe>. So, evidently, it is possible to build GAP for Windows. They do not seem to provide build instructions for Windows, however.
- Marc On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 9:17:35 AM UTC-5 Marc Culler wrote: > Another amusing quote, this time from the sbrk man page on macOS: > > > The brk and sbrk functions are historical curiosities left over from > > earlier days before the advent of virtual memory management. > > That seems to be a paraphrase of the FreeBSD man page, which says: > > > The brk() and sbrk() functions are legacy interfaces from before the > advent of modern virtual > > memory management. They are deprecated and not present on the arm64 or > riscv architectures. > > The mmap(2) interface should be used to allocate pages instead. > > Given that GAP runs on arm64, I suspect that it doesn't use sbrk in an > essential way anymore. Of course fork is a different story. But there are > surely lots of examples of programs that use fork which have been ported to > Windows. I would guess that emacs is among them. (It has been ported to > Windows - I assume it uses fork on posix systems). > > - Marc > On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 9:03:30 AM UTC-5 Marc Culler wrote: > >> On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 8:28:48 AM UTC-5 Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> Essential components of sagelib such as GAP, Singular, don't run on >> native Windows >> >> >> I was amused to find the following statement on the GAP forum >> <https://www.gap-system.org/ForumArchive2/2005/000999.html> from 2005: >> >> > While porting GAP to use native Win32 calls is doable, basically >> src/system.c is the only place >> > that needs lots of changes, it is certainly a nontrivial and >> time-consuming task. (and one needs >> > to be a bit of an expert in programming to do this, IMHO) >> >> The author was someone from the Netherlands by the name of *Dima >> Pasechnik. :^)* >> >> - Marc >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7e83fead-ed81-4536-9a64-0f7b1f391d72n%40googlegroups.com.
