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
>
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