Karim Belabas on Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:32:27 +0100


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Re: Zeta function bug?


* Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> [2004-01-15 00:18]:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Karim Belabas wrote:
> > 1) building under Cygwin and checking that nothing fails ( it usually does not
> > nowadays ).  [ This could be cross-built, although getting a working
> > set of Cygwin DLLs can be delicate ]
> 
> At least a mingw32 cross-compiler is part of Debian (package mingw32).
> I am not sure about a cygwin cross-compiler.

I had one running on my old SuSE 5.3 ... It had to be custom-built, but it
worked.

>> 2) launching the NullSoft Installer with input Odos/pari.nsi
>> (see http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ )
>> 
>> The latter builds the nice graphical self-extracting binary, and I do
>> not think it is available for any other platform than Windows.
>> 
>> So we can set up an autobuilder, but it will have to be a Windows system
>> ( or a pretty good 'wine' emulation... ). Or find a replacement for the
>> Installer, which had better be good because I'm rather fond of the NullSoft
>> one.
> 
> The installer is neccessary for a release, but probably we can just
> provide a static GP binary for a CVS snapshot

static GP does not have 'install()'

    Karim.
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