6:46 a.m.
The following piece of conversation somehow dropped off-list, but IMO is
of general interest, so I'm re-posting it.
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Logan Kelly wrote:
Not at all. please do.
I saw an older post about building under Windows, but there was a need for someone to
maintain the system. If this is something of value, I'm willing to help. However, I
haven't had any problems with the snapshot not being updated quickly enough. So maybe
the marginal benefits are limited.
Cheers,
Logan
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 5:44 PM -0700, "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti"
<r.lucchetti@univpm.it<mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it>> wrote:
whoops, sorry, I thought that was going to the devel list. Would you mind
if I forwarded it?
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Logan Kelly wrote:
>
>> Jack,
>>
>> Sorry for delayed reply. Two follow up questions.
>>
>> 1. with git dose the snapshot update as quickly as it did under cvs?
>
> Allin takes care of that. Anyway, if you go to
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/snapshots/
>
> you'll be able to see by yourself what the build date of the latest snapshot
> is. Normaly, Allin provides snapshots every day or two.
>
>> 2. Can you point in the right for direction for building from git on
>> Windows? I am able to download the source from git, but I need the next
>> step.
>
> Oh my god, no. I don't think that is possible. In theory, the whole GNU
> toolchain has been ported on windows as part of the CYGWIN project, but I
> think that the latest attempts to build gretl under win took place around
> 2010 or so. Our windows version is in fact build under Linux via mingw.
>
> On the other hand, the source itself is very standard C (I'm not aware of any
> particular gcc-isms; Allin?), and it would be interesting to see whether it
> could in fact be built via some other compiler under Windows. Of course,
> you'd need to link it against a good deal of libraries (GTK, and then some),
> but that's another matter.
>
> I wonder what other projects, possibly even much bigger than us, like R or
> LibreOffice or Mozilla use to build their windows version. Does anybody here
> know?
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Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
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8:38 p.m.
New subject: Feature request for plotting: GUI accesss to xtics and ytics
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
The following piece of conversation somehow dropped off-list, but
IMO is of general interest, so I'm re-posting it.
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Logan Kelly wrote:
> I saw an older post about building under Windows, but there was a
> need for someone to maintain the system. If this is something of
> value, I'm willing to help. However, I haven't had any problems
> with the snapshot not being updated quickly enough. So maybe the
> marginal benefits are limited.
I do think the marginal benefit is limited, but in case anyone is
interested in building gretl from git on MS Windows, here are a few
thoughts.
First, should you use MSVC or a GNU-like alternative? And if the
latter, which alternative? My recommendation is to use mingw. I
successfully built gretl using mingw on Windows a few years back, so
I know it can be done. Cygwin might be OK too, but if you want a
build that can be distributed to other Windows users you'd have to
be careful not to build in any cygwin-specific dependencies. MSVC is
unknown territory for me. In principle it should be possible to
build gretl using MS proprietary tools but I can't offer any help on
that.
In the gretl source tree there's a "win32" subdirectory that
contains various files relevant to a Windows build using mingw.
These files are set up such that you can choose between "cross"
(which I use, compiling for Windows on Linux) and "native". See in
particular "Makefile" and "mkwindist".
On the gretl server at WFU there's a directory "winbuild" --
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/ -- with some material
that was potentially helpful about 3 years ago ;-) If anyone is
seriously interested in trying a gretl build on Windows I could
update that material. Otherwise, doing so is not a good use of my
time.
Allin
8:49 p.m.
New subject: Feature request for plotting: GUI accesss to xtics and ytics
Thanks Allin, I Agree that this is not a good use of your time as the Windows snapshot is
updated in darn near real time with git. So it is not like Windows users are stuck
waiting very long. However, for my own edification, I will have a look at the link you
suggested.
Cheers,
Logan
From: Allin Cottrell
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] Feature request for plotting: GUI accesss to xtics and ytics
To: r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it, Gretl development
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > The following piece of
conversation somehow dropped off-list, but > IMO is of general interest, so I'm
re-posting it. > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Logan Kelly wrote: > >> I saw an
older post about building under Windows, but there was a >> need for someone to
maintain the system. If this is something of >> value, I'm willing to help.
However, I haven't had any problems >> with the snapshot not being updated
quickly enough. So maybe the >> marginal benefits are limited. I do think the
marginal benefit is limited, but in case anyone is interested in building gretl from git
on MS Windows, here are a few thoughts. First, should you use MSVC or a GNU-like
alternative? And if the latter, which alternative? My recommendation is to use mingw. I
successfully built gretl using mingw on Windows a few years back, so I know it can be
done. Cygwin might be OK too, but if you want a build that can be distributed to other
Windows users you'd have to be careful not to build in any cygwin-specific
dependencies. MSVC is unknown territory for me. In principle it should be possible to
build gretl using MS proprietary tools but I can't offer any help on that. In the
gretl source tree there's a "win32" subdirectory that contains various files
relevant to a Windows build using mingw. These files are set up such that you can choose
between "cross" (which I use, compiling for Windows on Linux) and
"native". See in particular "Makefile" and "mkwindist". On
the gretl server at WFU there's a directory "winbuild" --
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/ -- with some material that was potentially
helpful about 3 years ago ;-) If anyone is seriously interested in trying a gretl build on
Windows I could update that material. Otherwise, doing so is not a good use of my time.
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