Windows Installer v2

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

Hi developers,

  I have re-built my Windows installer for Pari, replacing the old file
but keeping the same file name:

  ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unstable/Pari.exe

This fixes the following two critical bugs:

1) factor( t_INT ) triggers a SEGV in MPQS. [ e.g factor(2^(2^7)+1) ]

2) none of the PostScript plot routines worked: they all complained
about a missing Gnuplot DLL.


Details:
1) looks like a bug in gcc-3.2 optimizer on Cygwin. Using gcc-2
[ aka gcc-2.95.3 ] fixed the problem.

2) was due to the configuration of the binary on my host system which has
a bloated Cygwin installation (650MB:-(), in particular XFree86. So Configure
got over-enthusiastic and included builtin X11 and (fallback) dynamic gnuplot
support. Of course a regular Windows box has no X server, and falling back to
an inexistent gnuplot doesn't help either.

Please Uninstall the old Pari.exe and check the new one ! If I get no more
specific bug reports, I'll announce it officially.

Cheers,

    Karim.

P.S: hi-res plots are disabled. I tried hard to get either Qt2 or gnuplot to
produce something usable on Cygwin, but failed miserably.

1) Qt does not look promising since it's _huge_ (add about 20MB in DLLs to
the package), and the Cygwin support is experimental at best: I can't even
get it to compile with my g++-2 installation without major tweakings, and
then there are various bugs (even without FANCY_WIN).

2) plotgnuplot is lightweight and _almost_ work. Fetching a fresh
Term::Gnuplot from CPAN, I could eventually get it to compile [ had to
undefine LINUXVGA, and define dummy routines pTK_*, and
set_mouse_feedback_rectangle ]. Dynamic loading works, but I get only 'dumb'
plots. I tried to play a bit with the various .trm, to no avail (can't even
get the standard gnuplot to compile under Cygwin when including native
Windows output driver).

Of course, using an X server works perfectly, but it becomes rather
cumbersome to start packaging X servers with Pari...
-- 
Karim Belabas                     Tel: (+33) (0)1 69 15 57 48
Dép. de Mathématiques, Bât. 425   Fax: (+33) (0)1 69 15 60 19
Université Paris-Sud              http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~belabas/
F-91405 Orsay (France)            http://www.parigp-home.de/  [PARI/GP]