On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:09 PM Qian Yun <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was trying to make INSTALL.CYGWIN up to date. > > One serious problem occurs: > > The cygwin version of clisp contains a patch from March 2015 > that says "Don't allow saving executable memory images on Cygwin". > > Don't know why cygwin developer choose to apply this, > but it effectively makes building FriCAS on Cygwin more > difficult. > > The problem is, shall we still support Cygwin at all? > > (Clearly, no one have built FriCAS successful on Cygwin > with Clisp for the past 6 years.) > > Advantages: > > 1. Cygwin can have HyperDoc with X11. > 2. Clisp is packaged by Cygwin. But this advantage is gone now. > > Disadvantages: > > 1. Clisp on Cygwin is slow, and not have a release for years. > 2. Cygwin is not as portable as msys2/mingw64. > > > So, if we choose to support Cygwin, we may need to use ecl, ccl, > or a unmodified clisp.
ecl is actively developed, and works on Cygwin (as well as on "native" Windows) > > - Qian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/8765c74e-7b93-b05d-4b76-73e869d653dd%40gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAAWYfq0nAnX%2BYVJMH8j8BB6FOeu-UWtGW9SDm8KHDUoFTryDxg%40mail.gmail.com.
