[julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Thanks for the information; food for thought. Out of curiosity, do you know why this is the case, by the way? Den fredag 16 oktober 2015 kl. 21:00:12 UTC+1 skrev Tony Kelman: > > Quite a few Julia packages are written in a way that assumes you're on > Linux or Mac with build tools installed. No

[julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Why many packages don't support Windows? It's par for the course in open-source development, unfortunately. I gave a talk on this at JuliaCon in June where I discussed some of the challenges in making things work on Windows and how to go about fixing them, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb

[julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 3:29:32 AM UTC, Tony Kelman wrote: > > Why many packages don't support Windows? It's par for the course in > open-source development, unfortunately. I gave a talk on this at JuliaCon > in June where I discussed some of the challenges in making things work on > Wi

[julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

I don't know the Java ecosystem all that well, so I couldn't tell you how many developers and contributors to, say, popular Apache projects do most of their development on Windows. If you need things like high-performance linear algebra you often need to go through JNI and deal with interfacing

Re: [julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Thank you Tony for your answer. I have just recently got into Python and building/compiling with MinGW-w32 and CMake (a lot of the terminology still goes over my head). Great talk! One main question from it; using Windows, is it possible to download a package from GitHub (which currently does not

Re: [julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

The answer is a not-particularly-helpful "it depends." Which library are you interested in as a starting point? Not everything will be easy to build on Windows, there are often posix/unix assumptions in the code or build system. Usually the easiest way to get started is by installing MSYS2 http

Re: [julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Looking at the original example of the Cpp.jl package, it appears to only be needing to call `make` at Pkg.build time in order to compile a demo test library. It should be pretty easy to modify it so it would fail gracefully with a warning rather than an error. On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 a

Re: [julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Thank you again, Tony. The packages I am interested in are for wrapping c++ code, so Cpp or Cxx . I am sorry for being slow... but compiling/building libraries is new to me. "Calling 'make' at Pkg.build time", is that something along the lines of what is described

Re: [julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Yes, that's about right, and don't worry about asking questions. We all had to learn this stuff somehow. The Makefile in question for Cpp.jl is here https://github.com/timholy/Cpp.jl/blob/master/deps/Makefile, which is relatively simple. It assumes the presence of a compiler, by default set to

Re: [julia-users] Re: Installing package (Cpp). Could not spawn 'make'.

Cheers, you make me feel welcome! I really appreciate your help! I have just tried it briefly, but ran into a few bumps in the road which I will try to wrap my head around (I want to give it a proper try before I come asking for help). I will get back to you, whether I succeeded or not. 2015-10-2