Re: ls lacking a feature?

Rob Thorpe wrote:
goose wrote:
Richard Heathfield wrote:

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Win32 GUI and the Win32 console, I choose the console every time. It more
or less works, which is nice.


Have you tried msys? It's made my life bearable under windows

Also, it allows you to download a source package (like gcl)
and merely do ./configure && make && make install to produce
(using gcc) a native windows executable without a dll needed
for runtime.

Wow, if it can compile GCL on Windows I'm impressed. GCLs makefiles
are weird.

So was I, especially when gcl under msys produced a native windows
executable from my lisp source code (complete with .exe extension
in filename) which ran on windows machines which had neither gcl nor
msys installed.

Used (si:save-sytem) or something like that ... don't remember
now, only remember being ecstatic that I could write in lisp
source and distribute executables :-).

The Tk bits of gcl don't currently work under windows, though.
The other downside of gcl is the not-ansi-standard-yet stuff and
the fact that it was as hairy as hell to build (2.6.6 wouldn't
build on linux with --ansi but would build on windows and
2.6.7 wouldn't build on windows with --ansi but would build on
linux); read my questions on this archived at the gcl mailing
list :-)

goose,

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