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Re: [Gcl-devel] mingw32 paths
From: |
Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
Re: [Gcl-devel] mingw32 paths |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:24:57 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Greetings!
Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
> Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
>
> | Greetings! I've successfully tested maxima and acl2 under both wine
> | and a native windows machine.
>
> That sounds promising -- I'll get to your other message soon.
>
> | I have a question regarding paths. From what I can tell, gcl needs
> | *to be run* under a mingw32 shell if it wants to compile anything.
> | Said shell reports paths as /c/dir/foo.c, but GCL's current truename
> | and probe-file expect c:/dir/foo.c. What is 'supposed to happen'
> | here?
>
> Please keep GCL's truename as it is. The msys's UNIX-style /c/dir/foo.c
> is just convenience for UNIX-centric tools (especially build tools).
> However, since we want GCL to be built natively, it should have Windows
> version c:/dir/foo.c, otherwise trouble.
>
> BTW, you can also use "pwd -W" (only in msys) to report the windows
> style pathname for directories.
>
> Also, please, keep the path separator as '/' -- that requires less escaping.
>
OK. Working on open-axiom now. A few minor changes to compiler::link
are pending, but appear working. I'm now stuck at the 'strap' stage
in src/boot. The lisp.exe error is "Cannot find strap.o", and indeed
it is not there (or anywhere else apparently.)
Take care,
> -- Gaby
>
>
>
>
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