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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Thanks a lot for taking the plunge Marciano;
we'll try to get the water up to temparature next time :^)
I forwarded your message to the TeXmacs mailing list,
so that other users might help with this porting project.
I have little knowledge of Windows and Cygwin,
but I will also let you know when I have some ideas.

-Joris-

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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:51:54 -0500
From: Marciano Siniscalchi <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: TeXmacs on CygWin

OK, so I have taken the plunge and attempted to compile TeXmacs 0.3.5.13 
under CygWin and Win2K (DLL 1.3.10). The bottom line is that everything 
compiles, but the program does not run. Here are the specifics.

-- First, I grabbed the Guile 1.4 sources and compiled them. No problem 
here, except that one file is named "and-let*.scm", which Win2k does not 
allow. I got the file from an archive, renamed it to "and-let-star.scm", 
modified the Makefile and everything compiled flawlessly. Also, as far as 
my (limited!) knowledge of Scheme goes, Guile seems to run as expected.

-- Second, I grabbed the Texmacs sources. I ran into trouble because gencc 
is not automatically built by invoking the Makefile in the base source 
directory. No big deal--I went into the gencc directory, issued a "make" 
command, and gencc/gendep were compiled.

-- Third, I cannot seem ot compile Texmacs with DLLs---maybe due to Cygwin 
limitations? However, "make STATIC_TEXMACS" does work: no configuration / 
compilation / linking errors are reported.

--Fourth, "make install" complains that no "../bin/tm_*" files can be 
found. Ditto for filter files. In fact, the Texmacs.../bin directory does 
not contain any of those. I just commented out the relevant makefile lines, 
and got "make install" to copy stuff to /usr/local.

--Fifth... I tried running texmacs, but no joy. I get two stack overflow 
errors, followed by a message to the effect that "guile seems not to be 
installed on your system in "install_texmacs"."

That's it! Any ideas? I'd like to keep trying...

Thanks for the great work,
Marciano.

Marciano Siniscalchi Department of Economics, 309 Fisher Hall
tel: (609) 258-4024  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1021
fax: (609) 258-6419  http://www.princeton.edu/~marciano