Re: Poll for macosx and windows users

On Windows, I almost never build stuff myself, but rely on pre-built
binaries that most projects provide with each release, e.g. on GitHub.
I might make an exception for programs/libraries that come with a Visual
Studio solution or can be compiled with CMake.

Camm Maguire <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 27. Feb. 2025, 03:28:

> Greetings!  On a related topic, do macosx users typically use macports,
> homebrew, or compile on their own?  Likewise to windows users use cygwin
> or compile on their own?
>
> Take care,
>
> David Scherfgen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Maybe a good compromise would be to:
> > - not bundle GMP with GCL
> > - use the system's libgmp by default
> > - but allow the user to specify a specific GMP library when configuring,
> e.g. --with-gmp=/path/to/custom/gmp
> >
> > That would allow users with an older OS to still build their up-to-date
> GMP version locally (without installing it, which might cause trouble?) and
> make GCL use
> > that.
> > Or maybe that's already possible with the current configuration script?
> >
> > Best regards
> > David
> >
> > Am Sa., 22. Feb. 2025 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Robert Dodier <
> [email protected]>:
> >
> >  On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >  > I was actually thinking of removing the convenience copy of gmp, as it
> >  > appears virtually everyone is dynamically linking against the system
> gmp
> >  > shared library.
> >
> >  Camm, I'm an outsider to the GCL project, and I haven't been following
> >  carefully. But anyway my advice is to avoid bundling GMP with GCL
> >  itself, and link against an externally installed library.
> >
> >  That will work for any system which is less than some number of years
> >  old. The trade off is that it might not work for very old systems
> >  (where very old = at least 10 years old; maybe someone has a more
> >  specific number).
> >
> >  I think that's an acceptable trade off. Maintaining backwards
> >  compatibility means there's less time for moving forward --
> >  essentially taking away from all newer systems to benefit a much
> >  smaller number of old systems.
> >
> >  FWIW
> >
> >  Robert
> >
> >  PS. I guess one might find some inspiration in other Common Lisp
> >  systems which make use of GMP or similar libraries -- I have no idea
> >  which those are, or how they go about it.
> >
>
> --
> Camm Maguire                                        [email protected]
> ==========================================================================
> "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --  Baha'u'llah
>

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