Installing sage from source on cygwin64 using preexisting packages
Hello, everybody!
I am new to Sage and I am trying to install Sage 5.12 on Cygwin64, fully installed and running well. When I tried to install as indicated (setting env variables and hitting "make"), I received an error when compiling MPIR. I downloaded this package separately and managed to build and install it. Then I realized that 21 out of the 93 software packages that come with Sage in the spkg/ directory have already come with Cygwin:
bzip2 freetype gcc gd glpk gsl iconv libpng mercurial mpc mpfr mpir ncurses patch ppl python readline scons setuptools sqlite zlib
Can I use these preexisting packages instead of building the spkgs that come with Sage? I understand that this would keep my whole environment tidier and would save me some disk, let alone avoiding potential compilation problems, such as with ncurses, sqlite, etc.
Before I go to installation and configuration files like Makefile, spkg/install, spkg/standard/deps, etc. and try to modify them so I can take advantage of the preexisting software (once my Cygwin installation is pretty up-to-date), three questions:
- Is this possible?
- Has anyone already tried to do this? I could not find it in the notes.
- Is there a standard procedure for doing this?
