=============================================== BUILDING NATIVE WIN32 GNU COMMON LISP FROM CVS =============================================== The preferred build host system for the Mingw32 compiler is MSYS. I use gcc version 3.3.1 and binutils 2.14.90, but earlier versions of gcc back to 2.95 are OK provided that you remove the "-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss" flag in "h/mingw.defs" before running "configure". Note that gcc 3.3.3 and gcc 3.4.0 do NOT work; likewise binutils 2.13.90 and 2.15.90. The working binutils version can be found at: ftp://ftp.sf.net/m/mi/mingw/binutils-2.14.90-20030807-1.tar.gz =============================================== BUILDING GCL USING MSYS AS THE HOST =============================================== BUILD TOOLS - Mingw32 Version 2 Windows native gcc: http://www.mingw.org/ - MSYS Mingw build environment, including the MSYS DTK http://www.mingw.org/ - Source code for GCL. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gcl/ Subject to the above warnings, it is usually a good idea to keep up to date with Mingw32 and MSYS. Updates for various parts of these packages are available on the web site. SHORT SETUP NOTES - Install Mingw32 and MSYS using the instructions at those sites. DETAILED SETUP NOTES - Start by installing the latest version of MinGW2.exe. - By looking at the dates and version numbers appended to the other packages on the download page, get any versions of gcc 3.2, binutils, mingw-runtime, and w32api that are later than the Mingw2 package. - Go to the top level Mingw32 installation directory - the one in which you can see "bin", "lib" etc - Extract those other packages in that directory eg: tar xzf rumpty-dumpty.tar.gz - Remove the Mingw version of "make" from the bin directory - it has serious bugs and will not work properly for most tasks including building GCL and Maxima. We will be using the MSYS version. - Get MSYS and install it - follow the instructions - subscribe to the mailing list and read the archives. - In the MSYS directory install the "msysDTK-1.0.0-alpha-1.tar.gz" package which gives you cvs, ssh, rlogin, etc. BUILDING - Change to your GCL source directory eg: cd /c/cvs/gcl - You are now ready to configure GCL: ./configure --prefix="c:/gcl"> configure.log 2>&1 Change the prefix directory as required for your final installation path. I find it helpful to redirect output from "configure" and "make" into log files for debugging and checking. - Check the log. - Type: make>& make.log - The "saved_gcl.exe" should turn up eventually in the unixport directory. You can try it out directly by typing: ./unixport/saved_gcl.exe at the command prompt. - To install: make install>& install.log It is necessary to install GCL before building Maxima. - The batch file "gclm.bat" can be used to make a Windows desktop shortcut. - BFD fasloading, Stratified Garbage Collection (SGC) readline and GCL-TK don't work under Windows. The configuration options above provide a "traditional" GCL executable which will build the current CVS version of Maxima. The BFD option will depend on someone with knowledge of BFD and PE-COFF linking fixing some problems with the BFD library - I am slowly absorbing the info needed, but we really need input from an expert. My inclination is to stick with custom relocation as BFD is less efficient. Mike Thomas 15 June 2004