On 9/3/07, Eric Marzolf <> wrote:
> Dear Prof. Stein,
> I am trying to build Sage on a win64 machine under cygwin with the last
> tarball of sage-2.8.3.
> There is an error about compiling the libgcrypt package : I send you the
> install.log file for more information.
> There are also previous make errors/warning about zlib and libgpg.
> As I have already python installed in my environment, I am also
> wondering about compiling again python:
> what is your philosophy about this point.
> I thank you in advance for your help.
Building SAGE with Cygwin is absolutely definitely not supported,
and will not work. The only way to run SAGE on Windows, is via
VMware (or Virtual PC or some other virtualization). There is a pre-configured
vmware machine at:
http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/vmware/
25 people downloaded it from sagemath.org in the last week.
I'll make a ticket for making it so that the SAGE build scrip very very
clearly indicates that it won't work on Cygwin right at the beginning,
to avoid such confusion in the future.
NOTE: SAGE used to support Cygwin several months ago (around March
2007), so you may have seen some old documentation about this.
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://www.williamstein.org
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