On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 07/30/10 11:08 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better. It's >> too bad nobody is working on that at all either. >> >> William > > I thought you and Mike Hansen were working on that, and expected to have it > done for Sage 5.0 next month.
I'm afraid neither of us has worked on it in about 2 months. Mike just moved and I was busy with numerous Sage Days workshops. I will also personally have little time to work on it for the rest of this summer. Nobody else has worked on port yet. > I might be persuaded to have a look at that once I get all the Solaris ports > done. That would be awesome. > 64-bit OpenSolaris is my main aim, but I'd like to get Sage building > on fulvia (Solaris 10 x86) as well as 64-bit SPARC. Fortunately, 95% of the > issues affecting one Solaris platform affect another, so they are likely to > come together. > > Is there available a detailed document about how to set up Cygwin, Yes -- http://cygwin.com > what's needed to install Sage, then a list of the issues? There is this page http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort the contents of the sage-windows mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows and nothing else. > Does Sage actually compile on Cygwin, but just not run well (which is the > case with 64-bit SPARC), or does it simply not build at all? It's more complicated than that. It does not fully build, but if one swaps out a few spkg's for slightly modified versions then it *does* fully build. Moreover it runs and passes most of the test suite. This page (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort) lists the 13 tickets I made for doctest failures -- I think they are nearly comprehensive. William -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
