On 27 October 2016 at 23:33, digxx <diger_d...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2016 23:00:48 UTC+2 schrieb Tommy Hofmann: >> >> There is a reason I asked to check for two libflint files three days ago. >> I saw this error with the missing libflint-13.dll before. The ln command >> can and will fail silently for various reasons. > > > Maybe just to clarify, coz I found that weird too. > Back then I ran Julia in cygwin (and I just tested again to see) becoz the > file libflint-13.dll was present back then. > When I start Julia in cygwin (I only tried via julia -p 4 - btw how do I > start multiple processes in windows directly when I just have the icon? >
You have to right click on it and edit it's properties. > add -p 4 in the shortcut options??) and build Nemo after cloning it does > create libflint-13.dll > However it is just 1kb and I didnt know (back then) it had to be an exact > copy of libflint.dll > Ah, Cygwin must have created a symlink. Unfortunately these don't work on Windows natively. > > When I run Julia terminal directly libflint-13.dll is not created at all. > That is odd, and we'll have to look into that. > > I wonder though now is why it doesnt really matter whether I build for 32 > Windows namley API=32 and i686 or for windows 64 API=64 and x86_64. > Both seem to work, is that intended? > Both should work. If you use a 64 bit Julia executable it sould build the 64 bit version. Otherwise it should build the 32 bit version. Bill.