On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:40:44 PM UTC+2, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > I had success compiling all of Sage (except maybe some strange gdb > segfault at the end of the doc building process) on real and virtual 32 bit > Windows. > > I may have been just lucky, but I'll give it another shot for 5.10 and if > I succeed you can just give a shot to the bdist I'll produce. > I don't think we should reinvent Cygwin here. > > And note I don't it's that useful to spend to much time on 32 bit Windows if 64 bitWindows with Cygwin 32 (or even 64 soon hopefully) works fine.
Of course there is some demand for Sage on Windows (Nicolas Thiéry even pointed that to me today at the Sage Days in Orsay) and that definitely includes old hardware so 32 bit Windows, especially in developping countries, but from my experience it is not that unusable. On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:59:00 PM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> On 2013-06-18, Volker Braun <vbrau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > ------=_Part_3815_15192245.1371584473247 >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> > >> > If there were a way to avoid the memory addressing conflicts with fork >> then >> > it would be implemented in Cygwin. A quick web search shows many people >> > having trouble with Apache on Cygwin, e.g. >> sure, Apache on Cygwin is a trouble. But Apache runs on >> Windows without Cygwin, yet is has its dynamic modules just fine. >> >> Cygwin cannot follow this path, as they want to be able to create real >> Windows dlls, not something that needs a custom loader. >> >> >> > >> > >> http://superuser.com/questions/597293/apache-package-in-cygwin-does-not-seem-to-work-error-logs-are-also-empty >> >> > >> > >> > On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:24:12 PM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> >> >> Apache has its own implementation of loading of dynamic modules. So >> they >> >> don't have to rely on the mercy of Windows... >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
