I installed Sage binary under WINDOWs Vista using the VM Player
as described in the Installation Manual . . . so far so good . . . but
I'm a little unsure what the VM Player is actually doing. Sage is not
installed in the ordinary sense that a program is usually
installed . . . right? What I'd really like to do is put the Sage_ROOT
on the PATH and then access all the packages in Sage and the
additional ones added to it. Can I do this by pointing the PATH to the
folder that contains the VM Player files that I downloaded as the
binary distribution for WINDOWs?
If not then I just read a new post in the WINDOWs Sage Wiki about
using Visual Studio 2008 & G95 to build Sage from source. That doesn't
sound so bad, but can I uninstall Visual Studio once I'm done using it
to build Sage . . .
or will that mess up the way Sage works? Will I be able to make stand
alone programs that are not running on Visual Studio at all (and
aren't effected by its licensing?).
If I have gcc installed why is it not possible to install the
source code with that?
Finally, if I choose to build the source code, is it OK to do that
without (immediately) erasing or uninstalling my present binary
distribution in its VM Player form?
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