[GAP Forum] opening a saved workspace generated on a windows machine on a mac

[Christopher Jefferson]

Yes,

In fact, even moving a saved workspace from one mac to another mac can break, if the versions of GAP or any package are different, or if the operating system version is different.

Chris

> On 12 Oct 2016, at 23:34, Will Chen <oxeimon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So, I've got a weird situation. My mac is is rather slow, but I carry it
> everywhere. I have a much faster windows PC, but it's a desktop I keep at
> home.
> 
> I'd like to be able to do some computations on my windows PC, save the
> workspace, and use it on my mac.
> 
> The first time I tried this (all using the latest version of GAP), it seems
> my windows install was 32 bit (even though the PC itself has a 64bit cpu),
> whereas my mac install was 64bit, and hence gap complained.
> 
> Next, I installed the 64bit "experimental" version of GAP on my windows PC,
> saved a workspace, but upon trying to open it on my mac, I get the error:
> 
> #W dlopen() error:
> dlopen(/proc/cygdrive/C/gap4r8_x86_64/pkg/io-4.4.6/bin/x86_64-unknown-cygwin-gcc-default64/io.so,
> 9): image not found
> 
> Failed to load needed dynamic module
> /proc/cygdrive/C/gap4r8_x86_64/pkg/io-4.4.6/bin/x86_64-unknown-cygwin-gcc-default64/io.so,
> error code 1
> 
> Is this circumventable? or are the mac and PC versions fundamentally
> incompatible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Will
> 
> -- 
> 
> William Chen
> Member
> Institute for Advanced Study,
> Princeton, NJ, 08540
> oxeimon at gmail.com
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