>|>> Don is having enough trouble compiling pmxab without >|>> having to deal with libf2c issues. >|> >|> Let's be clear on this. f2c and p2c are legacy kludges, >|> dating back to the 1990's and not well maintained. It >|> may be CTAN policy to allow only C, but the sensible >|> thing is to compile Fortran with a Fortran compiler and >|> Pascal with a Pascal compiler. >| >|judged from pmx 2.72 the GNU fortran compiler gfortran >|compiles the pmx source files out of the box. Gfortran is >|available for (at least) linux, mac OSX and windows.
I don't know about OS-X but Don seems to be struggling to get gfortran to create usable binaries on Windows. >|'free pascal' compiles M-Tx pascal sources, also out of >|the box. The compiler is available for the same OSes. So should I no longer create archives that include a standard gcc-based tarball? Of course, that means that TeXLive and MacTeX and and MiKTeX and Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora will no longer provide PMX or M-Tx. If Don or Dirk or anyone else wants to use gfortran and fpc to create binaries for Windows (32 and 64 bit) and OS-X and suitable Makefiles and instructions for use with gfortran and fpc, no one is stopping them. But what's "sensible" for *me* is to build binaries the same way on all platforms, and that means using f2c/p2c and then gcc. Bob T. ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
