newbie question....trying hard to get GSL to work under windows

[Oregon Medical Press]

Thanks for the suggestions from both of you.  It does seem that GSL
installation is easier under cygwin, but if possible I would still like to
install under MSYS/mingw32 because I have read that the executables run
faster this way under windows.  Speed is a concern for me.  Any other
suggestions as to my questions regarding installation under MSYS/ming32?  I
have figured one thing out.  There is a great write-up at
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/gnumex20.html explaining how to
integrate Matlab into the process.

Cheers,

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Slaven Peles [mailto:peles@cns.physics.gatech.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:22 AM
To: G L Ingram; Oregon Medical Press
Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: newbie question....trying hard to get GSL to work under
windows


As far as I remember gsl was (and I hope still is) part of cygwin
distribution. One just has to select gsl among other packages during cygwin
installation. I don't use windows that much but it seems to me that the
easiest way to get gsl on MS is through cygwin.

Cheers,
Slaven

On June 27, 2003 09:58, G L Ingram wrote:
> John,
>
> I'm by no means an expert in all this but you might this useful:-
>
> I've no idea about MATLAB I don't use it.  However I do use the GSL under
> windows using cygwin - I imagine the principles are the same:-
>
> When I want to install a GSL installation I download a tar.gz file
> from: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/gsl/
>
> this I then copy to the /home/username directory for cygwin.  The
> /home/username directory is found in the windows world as
> c:\cygwin\home\username.  There may be a better choice of directory but
> that's the one I use.  You should be able to find an analagous
> directory for msys.
>
> Having copied the file I push the cygwin icon button thingy this then pops
> a window with a command prompt in it.  From there you can navigate to the
> /home/username directory.  I then unzip (uncompress) the file using:-
>
> # gzip -d name_of_file
>
> Don't type the "#" it's shorthand for the command prompt.  I then untar
> the file using
>
> # tar -xvf name_of_file
>
> This produces a subdirectory called gsl-1.2/ or whatever verison gsl you
> have downloaded.  I then cd to this directory if you type
> # less install
> you should get some installation instructions but basically to get
> gsl working type:-
>
> # ./configure
> # make
> # make install
>
> This process should put the right files in the right place.
>