xcas engine

[giuseppe]

Hello! I like PocketCAS because one can change the commands with xml configuration file.
All ok about that, but have you considered an update of the xcas engine? I mean, the xcas/giac current version on PocketCAS is 0.8.2 (the command to run is 'version()') and the last stable version is 0.8.6 (original site of the designer of xcas). Can you compile the new version of giac for PocketCAS?
Thank you

Giuseppe

[MrMage]

Hello,

I don't have a Windows PC anymore, so I can't compile a new version of the CAS kernel for Windows Mobile. The advantages of the new version are fairly limited anyway.

But you can of course grab the newest xcas source and try to compile it on your own using Cygwin and CeGCC (or MinGW32CE). The changes I needed for the port are available on the website of PocketCAS for Windows Mobile.

Cheers

Daniel

[giuseppe]

Ok.
But where can i find these changes to compile giac source for wince, as you told me in your reply? Where precisely in the website of PocketCAS for Windows Mobile?
In the original xcas source package, are there informations about how to compile xcas on windows mobile to generate the two executables 'cas-event-server.exe' and 'casce.exe' that I can find on http://pocketcas.com/?Download/xcas?
Thank you!
Bye

Giuseppe

[MrMage]

They should be in http://pocketcas.com/?Download/xcas, and it's fairly easy to compile that stuff then. Just get cygwin, all the compilers, make etc. and MinGW32CE, then adapt Makefile.wince and run make -f Makefile.wince. Compiling cas-event-server will suffice, by the way. I also suggest you compress it with UPX afterwards.

[giuseppe]

Ok, i will try!
Thank you!
Giuseppe