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The FORM project for symbolic manipulation of very big expressions
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Can we have Cygwin and MinGW, MinGW64 dlls for ms windows usage? #446

Open loquat opened 1 year ago

loquat commented 1 year ago

thanks in advance.

tueda commented 1 year ago

If you want Cygwin/MinGW/MinGW64 run-time libraries: please install Cygwin, MinGW or MinGW64.

If you want a FORM package in Cygwin/MinGW/MinGW64 distributions: please talk to the distributors.

If you want FORM as a run-time library: unfortunately, FORM is an application software and is not a library. So, currently, it cannot be built as a dynamic link library.

If you say that dynamically-linked FORM binaries built with Cygwin/MinGW/MinGW64 run-time libraries should be placed in each FORM release: I am open to accepting your pull request :-) Some efforts are needed in .github/workflows/deploy.yml. Probably first we must ensure that make check passes. #418 could be a problem.

I hope this answer will be helpful to you.

loquat commented 1 year ago

thanks for your explaination, it is very kind of you. unfortunately, it can not compile to dynamic link library how to use it in microsoft windows?

tueda commented 1 year ago

Personally, I use WSL.

For Cygwin/MinGW/MinGW64, which should work as Unix, you can also try the instructions to build binaries. You could try the --with-api=windows option for configure to use Windows API instead of POSIX, but then some functionalities based on POSIX are disabled.