Dear calc user on a Windows based system, See the HOWTO.INSTALL file for information on how to build and install calc. See also the README file. BTW: While we are unable to use Windows 11, we welcome Windows 11 developers to try compiling calc natively (instead of via a Linux virtual machine). If you are able to compile Windows 11 natively, we would welcome GitHub pull requests showing any needed modifications: https://github.com/lcn2/calc/pulls Please also add notes to the 'Compiling calc under Windows 11' section in README.WINDOWS file. NOTE: The main developers do not have access to a Windows based platform. While we will make an effort to not break calc Windows based system, our lack of a Windows test environment will mean we will make mistakes from time to time. Hopefully Windows users can overcome these mistakes. Of course you are welcome to send us any patches that fix your Windows build environment. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= Compiling calc under Windows 11 =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= We were given this advice from a Windows 11 developer: Windows 11 users could use Cygwin: https://cygwin.com/install.html IMPORTANT: While installing Cygwin, and during Cygwin Setup, be sure to select all the MinGW64 packages relating to gcc. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= Compiling calc via virtual machine under Windows 11 =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= We would prefer a Windows 11 solution that does not require a Windows 11 developer to install a Linux virtual machine. Nevertheless, a Windows 11 user might want to use the Microsoft Windows Subsystem (WSL) for Linux: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/ We have been told that you will need to turn on virtualization to use this WSL subsystem. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= Compiling calc under Windows 10 via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It has been reported that calc version 2.12.6.4 has been successfully compiled, installed and running on Windows 10 on 2018 Jan 21. We were told: "The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a new Windows 10 feature that enables you to run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows" https://docs.microsoft.com/cs-cz/windows/wsl/about =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= compiling with Cygwin =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= An effort is being made to allow windows users to compile calc using the Cygwin project (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/) with the GCC compiler and Un*x tools for Windows. The major porting work for Cygwin was performed by Thomas Jones-Low (tjoneslo at softstart dot com). In March 2009, Michael Penk (mpenk at wuska dot com) reported success in installs under Cygwin: On my fairly complete Cygwin installs, everything compiles, checks, and installs correctly. My Cygwin is configured in a very standard way (out of the box, using all of Cygwin's defaults). The install worked on 5 different machines with Cygwin on them: one XP home, one XP professional, and three Vista professionals. Using the calc Makefile, he did the following: make all target=Cygwin make check make install He also reports: Of course, one should be logged in as an Administrator when one builds and installs calc. He was compiling calc 2.12.4.0 with Cygwin version 1.5.25-15. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= If all else fails, for Cygwin =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Much earlier (2001?) Thomas Jones-Low (tjoneslo at softstart dot com) recommended that you generate by hand all of the header files that by the Makefile. This has been done for you via the makefile rule: make win32_hsrc which uses the Makefile variables in win32.mkdef to form these header files under win32 directory. You will find generated versions of these files located in the win32 sub-directory. These files may be appropriate for your Cygwin building needs. In particular: Just copy the win32/*.[ch] files up into the top level calc source directory, edit them (if needed) and build using the Cygwin GCC compiler and Cygwin build environment. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= compiling under DJGPP =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You might want to try using the DJGPP system to compile calc. See: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ for DJGPP details and availability. To compile with DJGPP, one needs to select a number of Makefile variable changes. Eli Zaretskii recommends the following settings: TERMCONTROL= -DUSE_TERMIOS BYTE_ORDER= -DLITTLE_ENDIAN LONG_BITS= 32 HAVE_FPOS_POS= -DHAVE_NO_FPOS_POS FPOS_BITS= 32 OFF_T_BITS= 32 DEV_BITS= 32 INODE_BITS= 32 HAVE_USTAT= -DHAVE_NO_USTAT HAVE_GETSID= -DHAVE_NO_GETSID HAVE_GETPGID= -DHAVE_NO_GETPGID HAVE_GETTIME= -DHAVE_NO_GETTIME HAVE_GETPRID= -DHAVE_NO_GETPRID HAVE_URANDOM_H= NO ALIGN32= -UMUST_ALIGN32 HAVE_MALLOC_H= YES HAVE_STDLIB_H= YES HAVE_STRING_H= YES HAVE_TIMES_H= NO HAVE_SYS_TIMES_H= YES HAVE_TIME_H= YES HAVE_SYS_TIME_H= YES HAVE_UNISTD_H= YES BINDIR= /dev/env/DJDIR/bin INCDIR= /dev/env/DJDIR/include LIBDIR= /dev/env/DJDIR/lib MANDIR= /dev/env/DJDIR/man/man1 CATDIR= /dev/env/DJDIR/man/cat1 NROFF= groff CALCPATH= .;./cal;~/.cal;${CALC_SHAREDIR};${CUSTOMCALDIR} CALCRC= ./.calcinit;~/.calcrc;${CALC_SHAREDIR}/startup CALCPAGER= less.exe -ci DEBUG= -O2 -gstabs+ -D_WIN32 HAVE_ENVIRON=-DHAVE_NO_ENVIRON HAVE_ARC4RANDOM=-DHAVE_NO_ARC4RANDOM The 'Linux set' or 'gcc set' (see the Select your compiler type section) should work for DJGPP systems if you set the above Makefile variables. Look for Makefile comments of the form: # Select ...something... for DJGPP. Follow those recommendations. In cases where they conflict with the above Makefile list, follow the recommendation in the Makefile. ## Copyright (C) 2002-2009,2021 Landon Curt Noll and Thomas Jones-Low ## ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License ## as published by the Free Software Foundation. ## ## Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY ## or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General ## Public License for more details. ## ## A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is ## distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have ## received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ## ## Under source code control: 2001/02/25 14:00:05 ## File existed as early as: 2001 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/