Re: Poll for macosx and windows users

Hi

A Mac user here. I install Maxima using homebrew 

BR's


Prof. Alfonso R. Zerwekh
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> El 26-02-2025, a las 11:27 p.m., Camm Maguire <[email protected]> escribió:
> 
> 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.
>> 
> 
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