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 || [[http://www.netlib.org/blas/ | blas]] || 20070724 || works fine with GNU make and Intel Fortran compiler ||
 || [[http://www.bzip.org/ | bzip2]] || 1.0.4 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bzip2.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. [[a sage without bzip2 would be possible...; saved objects under unix/osx wouldn't load though.]] ||
 || [[http://www.boost.org/ | boost]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.ifor.math.ethz.ch/~fukuda/cdd_home/ | cddlib]] || 094b.p1 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. ||
 || [[http://users.tkk.fi/pat/cliquer.html | cliquer]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://clisp.cons.org/ | clisp]] || 2.41.p12 || MinGW port exists. Maintainer is receptive for build issues and usually fixes them quickly. [[maxima is often used under windows, so we should figure out their prefered lisp. We only use clisp for maxima.]] ||
 || conway_polynomials || 0.2 || platform independent, i.e. no known Windows specific issues [[trivial -- just a pickle]] ||
 || [[http://abel.ee.ucla.edu/cvxopt/ | cvxopt]] || 0.9.p5 || Has Windows build support, provides binary packages ||
 || [[http://www.cython.org/ | cython]] || 0.9.6.12 || pure python, no portability issues, might needs some TLC for various config issues [[my impression from cython-devel is that there are already numerous windows users of cython]] ||
 || [[http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ | docutils]] || XXXX || ||
 || dir || 0.1 || requires POSIX shell ||
 || [[http://ecls.sourceforge.net/ | ecl]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/eclib | eclib]] || 20080127.p0 || Works fine on Cygwin, but needs a port to MSVC. Port is probably of medium complexity. A merge of fixes upstream is welcome, but maintainer no longer uses Windows. [[Maintainer = John Cremona = has never used Windows, as far as I know. Porting is reasonable.]] ||
 || elliptic_curves || 0.1 || elliptic curve database, so no porting issues ||
 || examples || 2.10.2.alpha0 || no compiled code, i.e. no problem ||
 || extcode || XXX || various code in interpreted languages, i.e. javascript, java, Magma, pari, singular, no porting issues ||
 || [[http://www.netlib.org/f2c/ | f2c]] || 20070816.p0 || part of scikits, should work with MSVC ||
 || [[http://www.flintlib.org/ | flint]] || 1.06.p1 || C99 based code, build system easy enough, Windows specific fixes welcome upstream. Hooked deeply into GMP. [[Main developer -- Bill Hart -- uses Windows all the time.]] ||
 || flintqs || 20070817.p2 || is obsolete, but should build fine once FLINT works, C99 mode required ||
 || [[http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/damien.stehle/english.html#software | fplll]] || 2.1.6-20071129.p1 || no Windows port, needs some specialized math functions, but should be a relatively easy port. Upstream will likely merge Windows patches [[worry?]] ||
 || [[http://www.freetype.org/ | freetype]] || 2.3.5 || unclear if it is even required on Windows. ||
 || [[http://www.g95.org/ | g95]] || 20071120.p3 || Use Intel's Fortran compiler. An alternative for 32 bit is g77. ||
 || [[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap/ | gap]] || 4.4.10.p2 || Depends on sbrk(), currently builds only via Cygwin. [[a cygwin build could be fine for us, since there is no binary linking between sage and gap, and almost certainly there never will be any.]] ||
 || [[http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ | gc]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page | gd]] || 2.0.33.p5 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gd.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. ||
 || [[http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html | gdmodule]] || 0.56.p4 || should be pretty easy to do for MSVC [[Boothby told me this swig-generated "crap" will be removed from sage soon, he hopes.]] ||
 || [[http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~liu/G2R/ | genus2reduction]] || 0.3.p1 || unclear, don't really see any problem [[easy, probably; it's just math]] ||
 || [[http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~jensen/software/gfan/gfan.html | gfan]] || 0.2.2.p2 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. [[we should upgrade to 0.2.3 first]]. Some more remarks: gfan requires argv[0] to switch to the right computation. I.e. during installation the following is executed: "ln -s gfan gfan_weightvector". This should be portable, but symlinks can be problematic on Windows. ||
 || [[http://ljk.imag.fr/CASYS/LOGICIELS/givaro/ | givaro]] || 3.2.6.p6 || no port exists, C++ code uses templates and it migt. be a little tricky to get right. Upstream welcomes patches [[could be hard.]] ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html | glpk]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ | gnutls]] || 2.2.1.p1 || Shortly the spkgs for libgpg_error, libgcrypt and opencdk will disappear since gnutls now includes copies of them. gnutls has build support for 32 bit MSVC, the feasability of the 64 bit build needs to be investigated. Problems might crop up with inline assembly. [[maybe there is a native windows library that provides similar functionality. This is only needed so Twisted works with Python, and I'm sure that is already very well supported.]] ||
 || graphs || 20070722 || graph database, so no porting issues ||
 || [[http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~astorjoh/iml.html | iml]] || 1.0.1.p9 || no port exists, but it should be pretty straight forward. [[this won't be hard, since iml is just clean C code, mostly concerned with mat]] ||
 || [[http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ | ipython]] || 0.8.1.p1 || should work fine with MSVC [[definitely will work fine.]] ||
 || [[http://jinja.pocoo.org/ | jinja]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ | jmol]] || 11.5.2.p1 || pure java, no portability issues, large community of users on Windows ||
 || [[http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/ | jsmath]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ | lapack]] || 20071123.p0 || Works out of the box with GNU make. ||
 || [[http://pmmac03.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/L_function_public/CODE/ | lcalc]] || 20070107.p1 || somewhat crafty C code, ugly hacks in the user interface, but should be portable to MSVC. Builds fine under Cygwin ||
 || [[http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/ | libgcrypt]] || 1.4.0.p0 || ||
 || [[http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libgpg-error/ | libgpg_error]] || 1.6.p0 || ||
 || [[http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html | libpng]] || 1.2.22.p5 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libpng.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. In this case it seems likely that somebody else has done a proper Windows port. We might also be able to uses the system's library, but there might be issues with featurs, i.e. IE's libpng is supposed to be fairly bad. [[yep, something builtin to windows might be useful.]] ||
 || [[http://www.linalg.org/ | linbox]] || 20070915.p5 || this will be some heavy lifting, mostly due to some heavy templated code. Upstream is willing to merge and help out. ||
 || [[http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ | matplotlib]] || 0.91.1.p3 || should work with MSVC, more investigation is needed [[I'm sure this will work -- it is also part of what the enthought people distribute for windows.]] ||
 || [[http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ | maxima]] || 5.13.0.p2 || Should build fine with Clisp, Windows binary package exists. ||
 || [[http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ | mercurial]] || 0.9.5.p0 || some C extensions, maybe some portability issues, might need some TLC for various config issues ||
 || moin || 1.5.7.p2 || python based, should work fine on Windows ||
 || [[http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nathalie.revol/software.html | mpfi]] || 1.3.4-cvs20071125.p5 || depends on mpfr and gmp, pure C library. Port is simple and will probably be merged upstream ||
 || [[http://mpir.org/ | mpir]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/J.E.Cremona/mwrank/index.html | mwrank]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.shoup.net/ntl/ | ntl]] || 5.4.1.p11 || works fine with MSVC. Some functions like the time functions use old and crappy Win95+ interfaces. That can be easily fixed. It is very difficult to get fixes merged upstream, but the potential diff is rather small. The build requires Perl for a tuned build [[upstream merging probably isn't as hard as you think. The NTL author is a number theorist that many of "us", e.g,. John Cremona, know well.]] ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ | opencdk]] || 0.6.6 || ||
 || [[http://www.openopt.org/Welcome | openopt]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.math.ucf.edu/~reid/Rubik/optimal_solver.html | optimalrubik]] || 20070912.p1 || no Windows port, but simple C/C++ code without any POSIX dependencies. Console applications [[easy?]] ||
 || [[http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~kreuzer/CY/CYpalp.html | palp]] || 1.1.p1 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. ||
 || [[http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ | pari]] || 2.3.3 || Some build support exists in tree, but it is currently broken. Support from the maintainers exists and they are willing to integrate fixes upstream. The main issue is to get the build system play nice for MinGW+MSVC. ||
 || [[http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect | pexpect]] || 2.0.p1 || Difficult. pexpect uses pseudo ttys and a whole bunch of POSIX infrastructure. It is essential and central to Sage and no one has ported pexpect to Windows. While the API is very different it is still possible to map all functionality to native Windows API calls. Instead of porting pexpect, it might be possible to do something different that accomplishes the same thing. pexpect was the way to go with Python and Unix. It's possibly OK if this means rewriting SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/interfaces/ for this new approach. Some of the programs Sage interfaces with have native "client server" archicture, and that could perhaps be used instead. E.g., Maple and Mathematica do. Maxima almost certainly doesn't... ||
 || [[http://www.pythonware.com/library/index.htm | pil]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://polybori.sourceforge.net/ | polybori]] || 0.1-r7 || no Windows port, could be tricky, but upstream is willing to cooperate. [[worry??]] ||
 || prereq || 0.3 || requires POSIX shell - small build system issues ||
 || [[http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto | pycrypto]] || 2.0.1.p1 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. [[maybe trivial??]] ||
 || [[http://www.python.org/ | python]] || 2.5.1.p13 || excellent support for MSVC, 32 & 64 bit mode. [[yep, very very good support on windows]] ||
 || python_gnutls || 1.1.4.p2 || Should work, uses dlopen based mechanism. Is essential to the notebook, but can be dropped in favour of system's OpenSSL compatible library ||
 || [[http://pynac.sagemath.org/ | pynac]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.r-project.org/ | r]] || 2.6.1.p14 || Existing MinGW port, not too difficult to build. Port to MSVC desired. [[They don't already have a native MSVC port? Wow. That's amazing.]] ||
 || [[http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/stoll/programs/index.html | ratpoints]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html | readline]] || 5.2.p0 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. ||
 || [[http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ rpy]] || 1.0.1.p1 || Support for MSVC in 32 bit mode with MSVC. No Cygwin support, but patch by Abshoff exists ||
 || sage_scripts || 2.10.2.alpha0 || requires POSIX shell ||
 || [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ | setuptools]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ | singular]] || 3-0-4-1-20071209.p4 || Cygwin only, but needs even work there to run properly (libSingular) Needs to be ported to MSVC, upstream very willing to help out, but lacks expertise. Various issues like memory managment (omalloc) need to be sovled (malloc fallback), but build system issues and stuff like signals make this a bigger job. I would assume this is one of the two heavy jobs together with pexpect. [[This is probably quite hard. And interesting. At least singular builds under cygwin, which is a good sign, I guess.]] ||
 || [[http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ | sphinx]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ | sqlalchemy]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.sqlite.org/ | sqlite]] || 3.5.3.p1 || pure Windows port exists (see http://www.sqlite.org/download.html), but we need ??? ||
 || [[http://www.sqlite.org/ | ]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.algorithm.uni-bayreuth.de/en/research/SYMMETRICA/ | symmetrica]] || 2.0.p1 || no Windows port yet, but macro heavy. [[worrisome.]] ||
 || sympow || 1.018.1.p4 || tricky code that needs the right FPU flags set. Otherwise no big hurdles to overcome ||
 || termcap || 1.3.1 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/termcap.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. ||
 || twisted || 2.5.0.p9 || python, is supported, relevant to notebook ||
 || [[http://cims.nyu.edu/~harvey/code/zn_poly/ | znpoly]] || XXXX || ||		  || Website || Win32 || Win64 || MSVC || Version || Comments ||
 || [[http://www.netlib.org/blas/ | blas]] || || || || 20070724 || works fine with GNU make and Intel Fortran compiler ||
 || [[http://www.bzip.org/ | bzip2]] || || || || 1.0.4 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bzip2.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. [[a sage without bzip2 would be possible...; saved objects under unix/osx wouldn't load though.]] ||
 || [[http://www.boost.org/ | boost]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.ifor.math.ethz.ch/~fukuda/cdd_home/ | cddlib]] || || || || 094b.p1 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. ||
 || [[http://users.tkk.fi/pat/cliquer.html | cliquer]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://clisp.cons.org/ | clisp]] || || || || 2.41.p12 || MinGW port exists. Maintainer is receptive for build issues and usually fixes them quickly. [[maxima is often used under windows, so we should figure out their prefered lisp. We only use clisp for maxima.]] ||
 || conway_polynomials || || || || 0.2 || platform independent, i.e. no known Windows specific issues [[trivial -- just a pickle]] ||
 || [[http://abel.ee.ucla.edu/cvxopt/ | cvxopt]] || || || || 0.9.p5 || Has Windows build support, provides binary packages ||
 || [[http://www.cython.org/ | cython]] || || || || 0.9.6.12 || pure python, no portability issues, might needs some TLC for various config issues [[my impression from cython-devel is that there are already numerous windows users of cython]] ||
 || [[http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ | docutils]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || dir || || || || 0.1 || requires POSIX shell ||
 || [[http://ecls.sourceforge.net/ | ecl]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/eclib | eclib]] || || || || 20080127.p0 || Works fine on Cygwin, but needs a port to MSVC. Port is probably of medium complexity. A merge of fixes upstream is welcome, but maintainer no longer uses Windows. [[Maintainer = John Cremona = has never used Windows, as far as I know. Porting is reasonable.]] ||
 || elliptic_curves || || || || 0.1 || elliptic curve database, so no porting issues ||
 || examples || || || || 2.10.2.alpha0 || no compiled code, i.e. no problem ||
 || extcode || || || || XXX || various code in interpreted languages, i.e. javascript, java, Magma, pari, singular, no porting issues ||
 || [[http://www.netlib.org/f2c/ | f2c]] || || || || 20070816.p0 || part of scikits, should work with MSVC ||
 || [[http://www.flintlib.org/ | flint]] || || || || 1.06.p1 || C99 based code, build system easy enough, Windows specific fixes welcome upstream. Hooked deeply into GMP. [[Main developer -- Bill Hart -- uses Windows all the time.]] ||
 || flintqs || || || || 20070817.p2 || is obsolete, but should build fine once FLINT works, C99 mode required ||
 || [[http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/damien.stehle/english.html#software | fplll]] || || || || 2.1.6-20071129.p1 || no Windows port, needs some specialized math functions, but should be a relatively easy port. Upstream will likely merge Windows patches [[worry?]] ||
 || [[http://www.freetype.org/ | freetype]] || || || || 2.3.5 || unclear if it is even required on Windows. ||
 || [[http://www.g95.org/ | g95]] || || || || 20071120.p3 || Use Intel's Fortran compiler. An alternative for 32 bit is g77. ||
 || [[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap/ | gap]] || || || || 4.4.10.p2 || Depends on sbrk(), currently builds only via Cygwin. [[a cygwin build could be fine for us, since there is no binary linking between sage and gap, and almost certainly there never will be any.]] ||
 || [[http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ | gc]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page | gd]] || || || || 2.0.33.p5 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gd.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. ||
 || [[http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html | gdmodule]] || || || || 0.56.p4 || should be pretty easy to do for MSVC [[Boothby told me this swig-generated "crap" will be removed from sage soon, he hopes.]] ||
 || [[http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~liu/G2R/ | genus2reduction]] || || || || 0.3.p1 || unclear, don't really see any problem [[easy, probably; it's just math]] ||
 || [[http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~jensen/software/gfan/gfan.html | gfan]] || || || || 0.2.2.p2 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. [[we should upgrade to 0.2.3 first]]. Some more remarks: gfan requires argv[0] to switch to the right computation. I.e. during installation the following is executed: "ln -s gfan gfan_weightvector". This should be portable, but symlinks can be problematic on Windows. ||
 || [[http://ljk.imag.fr/CASYS/LOGICIELS/givaro/ | givaro]] || || || || 3.2.6.p6 || no port exists, C++ code uses templates and it migt. be a little tricky to get right. Upstream welcomes patches [[could be hard.]] ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html | glpk]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ | gnutls]] || || || || 2.2.1.p1 || Shortly the spkgs for libgpg_error, libgcrypt and opencdk will disappear since gnutls now includes copies of them. gnutls has build support for 32 bit MSVC, the feasability of the 64 bit build needs to be investigated. Problems might crop up with inline assembly. [[maybe there is a native windows library that provides similar functionality. This is only needed so Twisted works with Python, and I'm sure that is already very well supported.]] ||
 || graphs || || || || 20070722 || graph database, so no porting issues ||
 || [[http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~astorjoh/iml.html | iml]] || || || || 1.0.1.p9 || no port exists, but it should be pretty straight forward. [[this won't be hard, since iml is just clean C code, mostly concerned with mat]] ||
 || [[http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ | ipython]] || || || || 0.8.1.p1 || should work fine with MSVC [[definitely will work fine.]] ||
 || [[http://jinja.pocoo.org/ | jinja]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ | jmol]] || || || || 11.5.2.p1 || pure java, no portability issues, large community of users on Windows ||
 || [[http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/ | jsmath]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ | lapack]] || || || || 20071123.p0 || Works out of the box with GNU make. ||
 || [[http://pmmac03.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/L_function_public/CODE/ | lcalc]] || || || || 20070107.p1 || somewhat crafty C code, ugly hacks in the user interface, but should be portable to MSVC. Builds fine under Cygwin ||
 || [[http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/ | libgcrypt]] || || || || 1.4.0.p0 || ||
 || [[http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libgpg-error/ | libgpg_error]] || || || || 1.6.p0 || ||
 || [[http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html | libpng]] || || || || 1.2.22.p5 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libpng.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. In this case it seems likely that somebody else has done a proper Windows port. We might also be able to uses the system's library, but there might be issues with featurs, i.e. IE's libpng is supposed to be fairly bad. [[yep, something builtin to windows might be useful.]] ||
 || [[http://www.linalg.org/ | linbox]] || || || || 20070915.p5 || this will be some heavy lifting, mostly due to some heavy templated code. Upstream is willing to merge and help out. ||
 || [[http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ | matplotlib]] || || || || 0.91.1.p3 || should work with MSVC, more investigation is needed [[I'm sure this will work -- it is also part of what the enthought people distribute for windows.]] ||
 || [[http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ | maxima]] || || || || 5.13.0.p2 || Should build fine with Clisp, Windows binary package exists. ||
 || [[http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ | mercurial]] || || || || 0.9.5.p0 || some C extensions, maybe some portability issues, might need some TLC for various config issues ||
 || moin || || || || 1.5.7.p2 || python based, should work fine on Windows ||
 || [[http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nathalie.revol/software.html | mpfi]] || || || || 1.3.4-cvs20071125.p5 || depends on mpfr and gmp, pure C library. Port is simple and will probably be merged upstream ||
 || [[http://mpir.org/ | mpir]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/J.E.Cremona/mwrank/index.html | mwrank]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.shoup.net/ntl/ | ntl]] || || || || 5.4.1.p11 || works fine with MSVC. Some functions like the time functions use old and crappy Win95+ interfaces. That can be easily fixed. It is very difficult to get fixes merged upstream, but the potential diff is rather small. The build requires Perl for a tuned build [[upstream merging probably isn't as hard as you think. The NTL author is a number theorist that many of "us", e.g,. John Cremona, know well.]] ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ | opencdk]] || || || || 0.6.6 || ||
 || [[http://www.openopt.org/Welcome | openopt]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.math.ucf.edu/~reid/Rubik/optimal_solver.html | optimalrubik]] || || || || 20070912.p1 || no Windows port, but simple C/C++ code without any POSIX dependencies. Console applications [[easy?]] ||
 || [[http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~kreuzer/CY/CYpalp.html | palp]] || || || || 1.1.p1 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. ||
 || [[http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ | pari]] || || || || 2.3.3 || Some build support exists in tree, but it is currently broken. Support from the maintainers exists and they are willing to integrate fixes upstream. The main issue is to get the build system play nice for MinGW+MSVC. ||
 || [[http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect | pexpect]] || || || || 2.0.p1 || Difficult. pexpect uses pseudo ttys and a whole bunch of POSIX infrastructure. It is essential and central to Sage and no one has ported pexpect to Windows. While the API is very different it is still possible to map all functionality to native Windows API calls. Instead of porting pexpect, it might be possible to do something different that accomplishes the same thing. pexpect was the way to go with Python and Unix. It's possibly OK if this means rewriting SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/interfaces/ for this new approach. Some of the programs Sage interfaces with have native "client server" archicture, and that could perhaps be used instead. E.g., Maple and Mathematica do. Maxima almost certainly doesn't... ||
 || [[http://www.pythonware.com/library/index.htm | pil]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://polybori.sourceforge.net/ | polybori]] || || || || 0.1-r7 || no Windows port, could be tricky, but upstream is willing to cooperate. [[worry??]] ||
 || prereq || || || || 0.3 || requires POSIX shell - small build system issues ||
 || [[http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto | pycrypto]] || || || || 2.0.1.p1 || unclear how hard the port will be, but shouldn't be too hard. [[maybe trivial??]] ||
 || [[http://www.python.org/ | python]] || || || || 2.5.1.p13 || excellent support for MSVC, 32 & 64 bit mode. [[yep, very very good support on windows]] ||
 || python_gnutls || || || || 1.1.4.p2 || Should work, uses dlopen based mechanism. Is essential to the notebook, but can be dropped in favour of system's OpenSSL compatible library ||
 || [[http://pynac.sagemath.org/ | pynac]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.r-project.org/ | r]] || || || || 2.6.1.p14 || Existing MinGW port, not too difficult to build. Port to MSVC desired. [[They don't already have a native MSVC port? Wow. That's amazing.]] ||
 || [[http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/stoll/programs/index.html | ratpoints]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html | readline]] || || || || 5.2.p0 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. ||
 || [[http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ rpy]] || || || || 1.0.1.p1 || Support for MSVC in 32 bit mode with MSVC. No Cygwin support, but patch by Abshoff exists ||
 || sage_scripts || || || || 2.10.2.alpha0 || requires POSIX shell ||
 || [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ | setuptools]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ | singular]] || || || || 3-0-4-1-20071209.p4 || Cygwin only, but needs even work there to run properly (libSingular) Needs to be ported to MSVC, upstream very willing to help out, but lacks expertise. Various issues like memory managment (omalloc) need to be sovled (malloc fallback), but build system issues and stuff like signals make this a bigger job. I would assume this is one of the two heavy jobs together with pexpect. [[This is probably quite hard. And interesting. At least singular builds under cygwin, which is a good sign, I guess.]] ||
 || [[http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ | sphinx]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ | sqlalchemy]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.sqlite.org/ | sqlite]] || || || || 3.5.3.p1 || pure Windows port exists (see http://www.sqlite.org/download.html), but we need ??? ||
 || [[http://www.sqlite.org/ | ]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.algorithm.uni-bayreuth.de/en/research/SYMMETRICA/ | symmetrica]] || || || || 2.0.p1 || no Windows port yet, but macro heavy. [[worrisome.]] ||
 || sympow || || || || 1.018.1.p4 || tricky code that needs the right FPU flags set. Otherwise no big hurdles to overcome ||
 || termcap || || || || 1.3.1 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/termcap.htm. Since that port uses MinGW we need to either use MinGW 64 bit or do an MSVC port ourselves. ||
 || twisted || || || || 2.5.0.p9 || python, is supported, relevant to notebook ||
 || [[http://cims.nyu.edu/~harvey/code/zn_poly/ | znpoly]] || || || || XXXX || ||
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 || [[http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ | atlas]] || 3.8.p11 || Works find [[fine]], Intel C for better performance preferred ||
 || [[https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/ecm/ | ecm]] || 6.1.3 || no Windows port, but C, potentially issues with threading. Upstream ecm-6.2 has MSVC project by Brian Gladman - upgrading evm to the 6.2 release is #3237 ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ | gsl]] || 1.10.p0 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsl.htm. Brian Gladman also maintains a native MSVC port, 32 & 64 bit. ||
 || [[http://m4ri.sagemath.org/ | m4ri]] || 20071224.p1 || MSVC and SunForte port done by Martin Albrecht and in upstream. Upgrade ticket is #3204 ||
 || [[http://www.mpfr.org/ | mpfr]] || 2.3.1 || pure C, Windows make file support welcome upstream, depends on gmp. MSVC project by Brian Gladman exists and is recommended by upstream ||
 || [[http://numpy.scipy.org/ | numpy]] || 20080104-1.0.4.p2 || support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS ||
 || [[http://www.scipy.org/ | scipy]] || 20071020-0.6.p3 || support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS ||
 || scipy_sandbox || 20071020.p2 || support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS ||
 || [[http://www.scons.org/ | scons]] || 0.97 || works fine on Windows, python based. ||
 || [[http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/ | tachyon]] || 0.98beta.p4 || Windows port exists, unsure about MSVC + threading. ||
 || [[http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/ | termcap]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ | twisted]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.scipy.org/Weave | weave]] || 0.4.9 || now part of scikits, works fine with MSVC ||
 || [[http://www.zlib.net/ | zlib]] || 1.2.3.p3 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm Microsoft ships a copy under some name, so we might be able to "just" use the system one. ||
 || [[http://www.zodb.org/ | zodb]] || 3.7.0.p0 || mostly python, unknown difficulty to port [[probably easy]] ||		  || Website || Win32 || Win64 || MSVC || Version || Comments ||
 || [[http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ | atlas]] || || || || 3.8.p11 || Works find [[fine]], Intel C for better performance preferred ||
 || [[https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/ecm/ | ecm]] || || || || 6.1.3 || no Windows port, but C, potentially issues with threading. Upstream ecm-6.2 has MSVC project by Brian Gladman - upgrading evm to the 6.2 release is #3237 ||
 || [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ | gsl]] || || || || 1.10.p0 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsl.htm. Brian Gladman also maintains a native MSVC port, 32 & 64 bit. ||
 || [[http://m4ri.sagemath.org/ | m4ri]] || || || || 20071224.p1 || MSVC and SunForte port done by Martin Albrecht and in upstream. Upgrade ticket is #3204 ||
 || [[http://www.mpfr.org/ | mpfr]] || || || || 2.3.1 || pure C, Windows make file support welcome upstream, depends on gmp. MSVC project by Brian Gladman exists and is recommended by upstream ||
 || [[http://numpy.scipy.org/ | numpy]] || || || || 20080104-1.0.4.p2 || support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS ||
 || [[http://www.scipy.org/ | scipy]] || || || || 20071020-0.6.p3 || support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS ||
 || scipy_sandbox || 20071020.p2 || || || || support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS ||
 || [[http://www.scons.org/ | scons]] || || || || 0.97 || works fine on Windows, python based. ||
 || [[http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/ | tachyon]] || || || || 0.98beta.p4 || Windows port exists, unsure about MSVC + threading. ||
 || [[http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/ | termcap]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ | twisted]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://www.scipy.org/Weave | weave]] || || || || 0.4.9 || now part of scikits, works fine with MSVC ||
 || [[http://www.zlib.net/ | zlib]] || || || || 1.2.3.p3 || port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm Microsoft ships a copy under some name, so we might be able to "just" use the system one. ||
 || [[http://www.zodb.org/ | zodb]] || || || || 3.7.0.p0 || mostly python, unknown difficulty to port [[probably easy]] ||
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 || [[http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ | mpmath]] || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://networkx.lanl.gov/ | networkx]] || 0.36.p1 || pure python, no portability issues ||
 || [[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ | sympy]] || 0.5.7 || pure python, no portability issues. ||		  || Website || Win32 || Win64 || MSVC || Version || Comments ||
 || [[http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ | mpmath]] || || || || XXXX || ||
 || [[http://networkx.lanl.gov/ | networkx]] || || || || 0.36.p1 || pure python, no portability issues ||
 || [[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ | sympy]] || || || || 0.5.7 || pure python, no portability issues. ||
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 || doc || 2.10.2.alpha0 || no compiled code, so no portability issues. ||  || Website || Win32 || Win64 || MSVC || Version || Comments ||
 || doc || || || || 2.10.2.alpha0 || no compiled code, so no portability issues. ||

This page is part of the Sage on Windows port.

Package Analysis

Below you will find a list of packages in Sage as well as remarks on issues that will potentially come up during the Windows port. As we progress we will add detailed problem reports and how we resolved those issues at individual pages.

Packages with upstream MSVC support

  • Website

    Win32

    Win64

    MSVC

    Version

    Comments

    atlas

    3.8.p11

    Works find fine, Intel C for better performance preferred

    ecm

    6.1.3

    no Windows port, but C, potentially issues with threading. Upstream ecm-6.2 has MSVC project by Brian Gladman - upgrading evm to the 6.2 release is #3237

    gsl

    1.10.p0

    port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsl.htm. Brian Gladman also maintains a native MSVC port, 32 & 64 bit.

    m4ri

    20071224.p1

    MSVC and SunForte port done by Martin Albrecht and in upstream. Upgrade ticket is #3204

    mpfr

    2.3.1

    pure C, Windows make file support welcome upstream, depends on gmp. MSVC project by Brian Gladman exists and is recommended by upstream

    numpy

    20080104-1.0.4.p2

    support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS

    scipy

    20071020-0.6.p3

    support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS

    scipy_sandbox

    20071020.p2

    support by enthought, builds out of the box with MSVC + ATLAS

    scons

    0.97

    works fine on Windows, python based.

    tachyon

    0.98beta.p4

    Windows port exists, unsure about MSVC + threading.

    termcap

    XXXX

    twisted

    XXXX

    weave

    0.4.9

    now part of scikits, works fine with MSVC

    zlib

    1.2.3.p3

    port exists: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm Microsoft ships a copy under some name, so we might be able to "just" use the system one.

    zodb

    3.7.0.p0

    mostly python, unknown difficulty to port probably easy

Pure Python Packages

  • Website

    Win32

    Win64

    MSVC

    Version

    Comments

    mpmath

    XXXX

    networkx

    0.36.p1

    pure python, no portability issues

    sympy

    0.5.7

    pure python, no portability issues.

Packages without code

  • Website

    Win32

    Win64

    MSVC

    Version

    Comments

    doc

    2.10.2.alpha0

    no compiled code, so no portability issues.