======================== FriCAS V 1.3.0 (Windows)

Version 01-SEP-2016 Release: FriCAS w32, release 1.3.0: https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_w32/releases/tag/v1.3.0

FriCAS home: http://fricas.sourceforge.net/ Documentation: http://fricas.github.io/

Download

Windows Installer (recommended):

https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_w32/releases/download/v1.3.0/fricas_w32.exe

ZIP-file:

https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_w32/releases/download/v1.3.0/fricas_w32.zip

Overview

This is a native Windows version of FriCAS built by MinGW/msys (32bit) from the pre-generated source tarball. The Lisp compiler used was SBCL 1.3.0:

• fricas-1.3.0-full.tar.bz2
• sbcl-1.3.0-x86-windows-binary.msi

The Installer was made using NSIS (zip2exe). The modified "Modern.nsh" is in the "misc" folder.

Attention: Windows > 7 User

FriCAS will not work correctly in the new console (e.g. on Windows 10). This is due to incompatible changes of the console environment by Microsoft. Although there is a legacy mode, but ...

The jEdit Console plugin, however, still works on all Windows versions.

Work around: Use fricas-mintty instead.

For details and config see:

• https://mintty.github.io/mintty.1.html
• https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips

You probably want to edit fricas_mintty.cmd ...

Running FriCAS

Start -> FriCAS -> fricas or fricas_mintty

or click on the desktop icon.

Documentation

Start -> FriCAS -> user-guide (contents) Start -> Fricas -> ug-index (index)

Build Installer

• Create a zip file: fricas_w32.zip from msys install
• Get NSIS (nullsoft scriptable install system 2.50)
• cd ?\NSIS\Contrib\zip2exe
• rename Modern.nsh Modern.nsh_original
• copy misc/Modern.nsh ?\NSIS\Contrib\zip2exe
• Start NSIS Menu -> click Installer based on ZIP-file

Uninstall

Start -> right click FriCAS -> delete Delete desktop icon Goto installation location and remove the folder.

There is no uninstaller (no registry used).

Texmacs & JEdit

In order to configure TeXmacs or JEdit use the command files in the installation directory as basis. E.g. fricas-texmacs.cmd or fricas-eval.cmd.

Customize

Customizing the console can be done as usual (QuickEdit, font, colors).