Re: A patch for native PARI/GP build on Windows (Mingw+Msys)

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Vasili Burdo wrote:
> It includes:
> - Configuration changes to recognize Mingw build.
> - Native hires plotting for Windows.
> - Native support of Windows console including terminal size and colors.
> - All tests are passed for gp-syn. For gp-sta, tests involving install()  
> fail.
>
> This patch is based on current PARI SVN.
> Comments and suggestions are VERY welcome.

Hello Vasili, I did not test it (I do not have any Windows box),
however I have various questions:

1) Could you (or someone else) provides a test build system that
would build PARI SVN HEAD with mingw every days and post the result to
<http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/buildlog.html> ?
(If you can provide that, I will give you more detail).

2) If not, do you know how to cross-compile it on linux ?
(I have a mingw32 cross-compiler already).

3) Did you try to run "make test-all" or only "make bench" ?

4) Would the hires plotting also work with Visual C++ ?

5) Would the Windows console support work with cygwin ?

6) Is gp2c support possible ?

Thanks for your patch!
Bill.