Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements on cygwin

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

| On November 26, 2006 4:14 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > 
| >   I would like to test build-improvements on cygwin, but gcl-2.6.8pre
| > (and gcl-2.6.7) would not compile there.  If you know of the status of
| > GCL on cygwin, please tell me; otherwise, I fear Axiom on cygwin will
| > be delayed till I have time to work on GCL for cygwin (which will be
| > none this year). 
| > 
| 
| gcl-2.6.8pre compiles natively under Windows using MSYS/MinGW.
| cygwin is not necessary.

Well, I installed all I would find on mingw website.  The configure for
GCL-2.6.8pre failed because it could not find some of the basic
standard headers.  Meanwhile, I learnt what -mno-cygwin can trick GCC
to do.  I'm falling back to that.  It's late, I'm going to bed.

-- Gaby