Maxima fails to build with ECL on Cygwin

[Mike Hansen]

Hello,

Currently when I try to build Maxima with ECL on Cygwin, I get the
following error:

...
Summary:
ECL enabled. Executable name: "ecl"
default lisp: ecl
wish executable name: "wish"
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.19.1.p0/src/src'
test -d binary-ecl || mkdir binary-ecl
ecl -norc -eval '(progn (load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp") (load
"../lisp-utils/make-depends.lisp") (funcall (intern
"CREATE-DEPENDENCY-FILE" :mk) "binary-ecl/maxima" "ecl-depends.mk")
(quit))'
;;; Loading "/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.19.1.p0/src/src/../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp"
;;; Loading #P"/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/local/lib/ecl/cmp.fas"
An error occurred during initialization:
LOAD: Could not load file
#P"/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/local/lib/ecl-9.8.4/cmp.fas" (Error: "No
error").
make[1]: *** [ecl-depends.mk] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.19.1.p0/src/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

It seems like this should be a relatively easy thing to track down,
but I'm not sure where to start. It looks to be more on the ECL side
of things.

Thanks,
--Mike

[William Stein]

(And, as usual Juan Jose or Robert Dodier -- if either you would like
easy ssh access to a Cygwin Windows box to debug this, I can make you
accounts.)

--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[Martin Rubey]

Mike Hansen <mha...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Currently when I try to build Maxima with ECL on Cygwin, I get the
> following error:

it is the same error with FriCAS. ECL cannot compile-file on cygwin :-(

would be nice indeed.

Martin

[Dr. David Kirkby]

FWIW, there is a problem building ECL on HP-UX. The error might give just give
some clue to the Cygwin issue, though I admit is is unlikely.

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7167

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

This problem is trivial and does not have to do with cygwin. Just edit
the file src/c/Makefile.in and remove the lines beginning with # Seems
HP-UX is not really POSIX compatible.

Juanjo

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[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

The fix for this particular problem with HP-UX make is in the
repository (GIT/CVS).

Juanjo

[Mike Hansen]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The fix for this particular problem with HP-UX make is in the
> repository (GIT/CVS).

Any thoughts on the original

LOAD: Could not load file
#P"/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/local/lib/ecl-9.8.4/cmp.fas" (Error: "No
error").

problem?

Thanks,
Mike

[Juanjo]

One thing: I am not subscribed to sage-devel. Answers or questions
which are not cc to me may get lost.

Second, as I already told people in the ecls mailing list, I believe
that Cygwin's dlopen is broken, but I have not had time to debug it. I
already maintain two other windows ports: mingw and msvc, so cygwin
has never been on my priority list.

Juanjo

On Oct 29, 5:08 am, Mike Hansen <mhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
>

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

I have found out that the function that acts as entry point in FASLs
(compiled lisp files) was not exported by cygwin. That prevents LOAD
from working. A quick fix has been uploaded, but I still do not know
whether there are other issues left.

Juanjo

[Martin Rubey]

I would like to "announce" that thanks to Juanjo, FriCAS now builds "out
of the box" with ecl under cygwin, so I suspect that maxima should do
so, too.

Martin

[William]

On Oct 29 2009, 5:34 am, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have found out that the function that acts as entry point in FASLs
> (compiled lisp files) was not exported by cygwin. That prevents LOAD
> from working. A quick fix has been uploaded, but I still do not know
> whether there are other issues left.
>
> Juanjo
>

It gets farther, but still fails with:

;;; gcc -o "/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/build/
maxima-5.20.1/src/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.fas" -L"/home/wstein/build/
sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib/" "/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/TEMP/
ECLINITzVlCF0.o" "/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/build/
maxima-5.20.1/src/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.o" -shared -L/home/wstein/
build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib -L/home/wstein/build/
sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib -lecl -lgmp -lgc -lm
; - Loading binary file "binary-ecl/init-cl.fas"
;;; Loading "/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/build/
maxima-5.20.1/src/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.fas"
; - Providing system maxima

An error occurred during initialization:

C::BUILDER does not accept a file "binary-ecl/init-cl.fas" of
kind :FASL.
make[1]: *** [binary-ecl/maxima] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/
build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src'

make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

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I'm tracking this here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8269