X11 support is gradually being replaced by Wayland. The Wayland API is not fully compatible so some of the graphics code will have to be rewritten.
On Monday, February 5, 2024 at 9:47:20 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > -- (after all, I will publish this mail) -- > > Hello, > > I put it here just in case. > > This week-end I added support for Windows to my copy of FriCAS [1], it is > not a concurrent I insist, it's a parallel work in progress not destined to > create a standalone package. And using the amazing work of Qian, here on > workflows, I was able to build FriCAS with libjulia.dll dynamically loaded. > His work, and others of course, helped me to build FriCAS on MSYS2/MinGW > with support from Julia. It includes the ability to produce graphics > without X. Personally I use WSL2 and do not extensively use graphics but in > case of material incompatibility for example this could be of help to > others. I hesitated to post a screenshot, not a big fan in a mailing list, > but this is for Windows which uses, intensively, human/machine interface in > a graphical manner. I think that could be of interest to pure Windows > users. I will eventually produce a binary installer and release it on > GitHub, I first need to look at license concerns. If I do it, I might > eventually produce a Windows binary installer for the official FriCAS if > there are some interest. On Windows this is the preferred way to install > software. > > > [image: Capture d'écran 2024-02-05 113132.png] > > So, for Windows users, take a look if you want graphics on Windows without > X. The official, well supported, FriCAS is of course > https://fricas.github.io/ with its GitHub repository: > https://github.com/fricas/fricas > > PS: hoping the screenshot is not too large... > > [1] https://github.com/gvanuxem/fricas/tree/jlfricas > -- 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/90849c26-f100-44fa-9c26-4692a412fdc7n%40googlegroups.com.
