[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl windows 98 problem

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for your report!  The GCL team currently has one
(to my knowledge) developer with access to a Windows development
environment.  He has graciously consented to supply us with the
binaries you're looking at.  I'm cc'ing him on this request.  I know
he's likely out of town for a while, so please be patient.  

In case you'd like to help with the Windows port, please let us know.

Take care,

"Robert Boyer" <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried to install the following and had no luck:
> 
>   
> http://people.debian.org/~camm/gcl/stable-binary/gcl_2.6.1.mingw32_japi_xdr_20031026.zip
> 
> The symptom arose when, after installation seemed complete and without 
> difficulty,
> I tried to start up gcl. The file gcl.bat could not be found, it said.  
> Poking around a little, I suspect the problem
> may possibly have something to do with the fact that the "path" command, 
> which I think is new to Windows XP, does not exist
> on Windows 98, which I am using.  I also tried firing up the saved_gcl image 
> directly, and,
> after displaying a blank dos screen  for a split second, it simply exited 
> without any
> error.  Invoking saved_gcl under an Emacs shell also exited without any error 
> message.
> 
> If you have the time to make this work on Windows 98, or can tell me what I'm
> doing wrong, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> P. S. I find using the executable maxima image in
> 
>   http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima-download/maxima55l-setup.exe
> 
> works quite well.  But I would like to find a Windows 98 gcl, with gcc 
> compiler, that didn't have all of maxima already loaded.
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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