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Installing OpenAxiom on Windows

You can find a OpenAxiom installer for Windows at:

http://www.open-axiom.org/download.html

More complete instructions for a full Windows setup without doing a build are here:

WindowsSetupNoBuild

Building OpenAxiom on Windows (MINGW)

In the following order:

1. MinGW

   This package will install mingw-runtime, w32api, GCC, binutils and mingw32-make.

2. Get the latest OpenAxiom sources:

   svn co https://open-axiom.svn.sf.net/svnroot/open-axiom/trunk open-axiom.trunk

3. Lisp

   Get the GCL source code:

   $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/gcl $ cvs co -d gcl-2.6.8pre -r Version_2_6_8pre gcl

4. SVN

   Here are instructions to download and install the windows version of svn

Building OpenAxiom on Windows (Cygwin)

• This section is not finished but does indicate some of the necessary steps.

• Installing Cygwin

  Cygwin will give you a basic set of UNIX routines, such as ls, grep, etc., that run on Windows. Included is a Bash shell run via Cygwin.bat or its shortcut, both found in the main directory. Most other executables are in the bin directory. Cygwin has been around a long time and is stable. Installing it should not cause problems. More complete information can be found on the Cygwin site, but this is a quick start guide.

  • Go to http://www.cygwin.com/, download setup.exe, and run it.
  • Select Install from the Internet
  • Pick a directory for the files. C:\Cygwin is good.
  • You will eventually get a list of packages. Use this to get new packages, update packages, or remove them.
  • You will probably want to put C:\Cygwin\bin in your path.
  • A useful tool to find what is needed for a build is cygcheck -p <regexp-search-string>. Run it with no arguments to get its usage.

• Packages Needed:
  • gcc and Make in Devel
  • clisp in Math
  • libX-devel in X11
  • libXt-devel in X11
  • libXpm in X11
  • libiconv in Libs or Devel