[Ecls-list] SUCCESS WITH ECL! Re: cygwin

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

Thanks also for your work on this, including testing all the partial
fixes, Martin!

Juanjo

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Martin Rubey
<martin.rubey at math.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> Dear Juanjo,
>
> Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> I have fixed a couple of problems with the cygwin port. The log is
>> below, but everything is related to yet another dlopen() problem:
>> namely, it does not like filenames without file extensions. This
>> prevented ECL from making a copy of every fasl it loads, so that when
>> a file is recompiled it cannot be reloaded. I think this might explain
>> some of your problems when building fricas with ECL: I presume fricas
>> compiles and recompiles itself several times.
>
> precisely!
>
> And I can now announce:
>
> ECL supports cygwin builds of FriCAS (with graphics and HyperDoc)
>
>    out of the box
>
> now!
>
> Juanjo, you are great!
>
> Waldek: should/can we upload a binary?
>
> Here a toy example (look at the timings):
>
> ecl:
>
> (4) -> guessPRec [random 10000 for i in 1..100]
>
>   (4)  []
>                             Time: 3.80 (EV) = 3.80 sec
>
> clisp:
>
> (4) -> guessPRec  [random 10000 for i in 1..100]
>
>   (4)  []
>                             Time: 14.11 (EV) = 14.11 sec
>
>
> Just to put things into perspective: it has been *absolutely* great to
> have CLISP, because without it, there would not have been FriCAS on
> windows up to now.
>
> It is wonderful to have now another, speedy! alternative to CLISP.  And
> it would be even better to have sbcl on cygwin, too.
>
> (MS Windows without cygwin is a different issue...)
>
> Many thanks again Juanjo,
>
> Martin
>



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