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["Joel Pitt" <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Gustavo!

I believe Cesar added the GSL stuff for sampling probability
distributions with indefinite probabilities, but I've also had to add
it for the attention allocation branch, so it's probably worth making
an official dependency.

I'm not sure what the gcc specific code is - there is a bit of
assembler in there, so I'm not sure if that's it? Do you have a line
number that it complains about?  I've cced Cesar in case he knows what
it's about... (it might be from the Indefinite Probabilities code from
Novamente though...)

Also, note to Cesar and Ari. Last night I did a big rearrange and
rename of files. Most of the changes are minor or make intuitive
sense. Things like making the Rule directories all lower case to
conform with the OpenCog standard, and moving the PLN utility files
into a separate util dir (where they used to be, but it was easier for
me to grok the PLN system with all the files in one dir). I also fixed
some of the naming to be consistent (e.g. Ptlatom to PLNatom etc).

Cheers,
J

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama
<gama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Joel & Ari,
>
> sorry for not answering before. I guess I misunderstood Ari's e-mail --
> I did not realize he got stuck (after watching the video, I though he
> was merely pointing out dependencies that were missing from our
> README.win32 file).
>
> So, if I got everything right, there were two "required" dependencies
> that he could not solve: python -- which is an indirect dependency of
> cxxtest and, indeed, I forgot to add to the README.win32 file -- and the
> GSL library -- which Joel (or someone else working on the pln branch)
> added to the CMakeLists.txt file but forgot to add to the READMEs as
> well.
>
> So, the "solution" is simply to download and install these
> dependencies. :-)
>
> Python for win32 may be downloaded from the official website:
> http://www.python.org/download/releases/
>
> The GSL library may be found at:
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gsl-lib-zip.php
>
> And, theoretically, there's another indirect dependency from the GSL
> library:
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/libgw32c-lib-zip.php
>
> I said theoretically because I never got to the point of linking the pln
> libraries. The build broke when building the Formulas.cc file
> (apparently the FormulasIndefinite.h file has some gcc-specific code).
>
> Now, as dhart said we should not have any problems with binaries
> distribution, I've uploaded a .zip file with the libraries, headers and
> CMakeCache.txt file I'm using. It is available at:
>
> http://www.4shared.com/file/59071788/45536608/opencog-win32-deps.html
>
> (side note: I haven't, however, included the dependencies that use an
> installer -- for instance, Python, CMake or Bzr).
>
> Hopefully, this should help ease the process of building opencog on
> win32.
>
> --
> Gustavo
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:42 +1200, Joel Pitt wrote:
>> Hi Gustavo,
>>
>> Not sure how busy you are with other things, but it'd be immensely
>> appreciated if you could assist Ari with the Windows build process s
>> that he can help us out with PLN.
>>
>> I'd do so myself but unfortunately it's been so long since I developed
>> in Windows that I'd as likely steer him wrong than help!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> J
>
>