Tips and tricks for building FriCAS in mingw64 on windows

[oldk1331]

Although I have built FriCAS in mingw64 before,
I encounter many small obstacles this time,
so I decide to document them here for future reference.

In addition to http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/windows.txt

Tips and tricks for building FriCAS in mingw64 on windows are:

1. Install SBCL in a path that doesn't include spaces,
for example, "C:\SBCL\".

2. Use "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" instead of
"MSYS2 MSYS" from the windows start menu,
otherwise you will encounter errors with SBCL.

3. Default memory configuration is not enough
for SBCL to compile TMFORM.lsp, so you need something like:

./configure --with-lisp="/c/SBCL/sbcl.exe --dynamic-space-size 4000"

4. Anti-virus software may slow down the process,
so add "C:\msys64" to the exclusion path of
anti-virus software.

- Qian

[Grégory Vanuxem]

Hello Qian, *

Right for TMFORM and MinGW 64, I'm relatively used to building FriCAS
on Windows.

I also wrote some things here to install FriCAS with MSYS2/MinGW64.
It explains what is needed to be installed for building FriCAS from
MSYS 2 with MinGW that is gcc, diffutils if they build it without
pre-generated files, make, gettext and little explanations about
pacman, the package manager. I will try to find the link.

BTW I own a NSIS script to build a self installer if Waldek and others
want a self installer for download.
It supports uninstallation via start menu or configuration panel
(registry key), icons in start menu etc.

If you want you can test the installer and remove FriCAS easily, the
FriCAS self installer is available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ir7p6UF6O13QYh-bHqmwbwPTBr38Kn33/view?usp=sharing

I would be happy if you can test it, though I need to update the
FriCAS version. I hesitate between a stable release or the lastest
GitHub version.

I think it would be good to provide this type of installer to "a give
it a try" to Windows users even if it has no graphics nor hyperdoc.
If they like FriCAS or are more curious and they own Windows 10 they
can switch to a full FriCAS with graphics and Hyperdoc or only in
terminal mode on WSL 2. I wrote in the past two tutorials to build
FriCAS on WSL 2 with or without Xorg:
https://groups.google.com/g/fricas-devel/c/k-k0TNsn2ro/m/UUgmR0cPBQAJ
It explains also what is needed to be installed on MSYS2.

Cheers,

__
Greg






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G. Vanuxem

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[oldk1331]

Hi Greg,

I tried your exe on Windows 10 and it works very well.

I guess your installer works similar with
https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_w32 .

I agree it's a good idea to provide a windows binary without
graphics, it'll enable more people to give FriCAS a try.

Best,
Qian

[Grégory Vanuxem]

Hello Qian, *,

Sorry I forgot to say thank you. I'm happy it works nice.

And yes it's the same installer. I looked at your build file after your mail and yes it's the same installer file type. Yours is more complicated but same spirit.

Some changes that I wanted in my life explain that.

Sorry again

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[oldk1331]

Hi Greg,

Just to clarify, the credit of https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_w32
goes to Kurt Pagani.

- Qian

On 9/22/20 8:17 PM, Grégory Vanuxem wrote:
> Hello Qian, *,
>
> Sorry I forgot to say thank you. I'm happy it works nice.
>
> And yes it's the same installer. I looked at your build file after your
> mail and yes it's the same installer file type. Yours is more
> complicated but same spirit.
>
> Some changes that I wanted in my life explain that.
>
> Sorry again
>
>
> Le mer. 9 sept. 2020 à 12:13, oldk1331 <oldk...@gmail.com

> <mailto:oldk...@gmail.com>> a écrit :

[Grégory Vanuxem]

Oh, ok. I see

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[Grégory Vanuxem]

Thanks. I forgot.