Mail Archives: djgpp/2023/06/17/03:46:08
vjp2 DOT at AT at DOT BioStrategist DOT dot DOT dot DOT com writes:
> My plain text dialup unix isp (and termux unix under android) has
> non-gui versions of R, Octave and Maxima.
You might want to ask them about how they did it, probably after
asking the upstream projects if they provide a way to disable GUI
features at build time.
> I am considering learning how to compile them under MSDOS
That is a good question for DJGPP (although these things are very
application-specific, so you'll get faster results if you do as much
as you can and then come ask here -- if you don't, unless there's
somebody who's been thinking about scratching that same itch, you're
just going to be told to try it and tell us what your problems are).
> and trying to find out how the GUI routines were blocked.
This is application-specific. Unless you're very lucky and somebody
has already done this (but in that case it would probably be in
contrib already), you should ask the upstream projects. They probably
have a switch to get you most of the way to the terminal-only
configuration *on a POSIX system*, but it's less and less likely over
time that you'll have out-of-the-box support for DJGPP.
I would start by getting the source code (preferably as $VC repository
clones), and running ./configure --help (or whatever the build
configuration system is) to see if there are switches to disable
inclusion of GUI features.
Good luck, and have fun!
Steve
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