> > If I were to do any work on Sage I would pick up where I left since in > 2009 I actually did a port of Sage 4.0 to a mixed MSVC/MingW environment to > the point where I could import libSingular and do GB computations. I was a > 3.5 months never ending session of banging my head against my desk, but in > the end I ended up with somewhere aroud 500 to 600 patches to many of the > Sage components as well as the Sage library. pexpect was a special pain in > the ass, but that was to be expected. Unfortunately the disk image I used > no longer exists due to a hardware failure of the backup medium - guess who > now uses additional online backups for the important stuff :(. The failure > does not matter too much since most of those patches had to be cleaned up > anyway and if you have to do the port the second time you just have to > remember how you fixed the problem the first time ;). > > Thanks to JP Flori and a number of other people on finding better flags etc. for Cygwin, you might be surprised about some of the spkgs now on Windows, they might not need as much work as before.. can't speak for Pari and/or libGAP, though!
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