Windows Sage

The longterm goals of the Windows Sage Mathematical Software project are:

Provide a fully native viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB for Microsoft Windows users.
Be straightforward to build completely from source under Windows (using commercial compilers).
Provide an alternative to Enthought's EPD, Python(x,y), and ActiveState Python:
- 100% free and open source, unlike any of the above systems
- Much wider range of mathematical functionality (especially symbolic computation and statistics)
- A more integrated environment (via the Sage notebook and Sage library)
- Support both 32 and 64-bit
Provide a version with no GPLv3 licenced components (GPLv2+ is fine) for companies that can't risk running GPLv3 software.

0.3.7.RC3 Release Note

Added MSVC 2008 Redistributable Package as Merge Module.
Update to Python 2.6.2 (should fix hg).
Tidied up folder structure. All headers (*.h) under local\include. All DLLs under local\bin. All static libraries under local\lib.
Ported Givaro 3.2.15 to Windows and Sage Windows.

Binary Releases

sage-0.3.7.RC3.msi (80MB) (July 4, 2009).
sage-0.3.7.RC2.msi (69MB) (May 26, 2009). [This release requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) installed as a prerequisite.]

Old binary releases can be found here.

Source Code Releases

sage-windows-0.3.7.RC3.zip (67MB) (July 4, 2009).
sage-windows-0.3.7.RC2.zip (65MB) (May 26, 2009).

To build from source you currently need the following tools installed: -

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (Trial)
G95 Fortran Compiler
7-Zip

Old source releases can be found here.

Developer Links

Mailing List - Please join the sage-windows Google Group.
Wiki - There are many Wiki pages relevant to Windows Sage in the Sage wiki.
Trac - There is a Trac server for tracking bugs and enhancements.
Sage Project - Windows Sage is based on the Sage project (which targets OS X, Linux and Solaris), but may have significantly different functionality.

Contributors

There are hundreds of people that have contributed to the components included in Windows Sage. The people who have directly contributed to the development of Windows Sage itself are:

Michael Abshoff
Tomas Boothby
William Cauchois
Craig Citro (help with PARI)
Philip J. Erdelsky (unix2dos utility)
Chris Gorecki (first version of wexpect)
Bill Hart (eMPIRe, will port FLINT)
Jason Moxham (eMPIRe, PARI optimization)
Dan Shumow
Blair Sutton (scipy, lapack, build system improvements)
William Stein (project director)

Development of Windows Sage is partly funded by Microsoft Corporation and the National Science Foundation.