THE SOFTWARE:
This software is a version of the pcynlitx platform which has been developed for Windows 10 operating systems users.
THE INSTALLATION AND USAGE OF PCYNLITX:
The pcynlitx platform has been developed by Mr. “Erkam Murat Bozkurt” who lives in Istanbul/Turkey and you can reach the developer of the platform the e-mail “[email protected]”. The copyright of pcynlitx platform has been taken from US. Copyright Office. The installer installs the pcynlitx platform with all of its dependencies and perform necessary configuration settings. These dependencies and settings are given in below and you can control the installers operations after installation with the information is given in below.
PCYNLITX license:
The pcynlitx platform can be used with GNU GPLv3 open source software license.
PCYNLITX DEPENDENCIES
The pcynlitx platform requires mingw64 compiler tool chain and mingw64 compiler is installed automatically by pcynlitx installer. The "pcynlitx" installer performs the basic installation automatically and starts mingw64 installation after the basic installation completed. The application is installed to the folder "C:\Program Files" as "C:\Program Files\Pcynlitx". The mingw64 installer setups the mingw64 compiler and The path environments are set by mingw64 installer automatically. You can check the user path environment after installation with method given in below.
Open the panel that is used in order to set path variables.
The panel can be opened with the way given in below.
Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced System Settings ->Environment Variables
The following paths must be added to the user path ( The path variables to be used for the users )
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mingw64\mingw64
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mingw64\mingw64\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mingw64\mingw64\include
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mingw64\mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mingw64\mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\include
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mingw64\mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib
The mingw64 installer which is used in pcynlitx installer is developed particularly for pcynlitx platform by the developer of the pcynlitx platform "Erkam Murat Bozkurt". The installer setups the proper mingw64 version for pcynlitx. However, the installer only performs an installation using the mingw64 binaries and the actual mingw64 compiler and its tools have been developed by "mingw64 community". The developer of the pcynlitx platform "Erkam Murat Bozkurt" thanks to the mingw64 developers for their contributions on both the pcynlitx project and open source software ecosystem. You can find more information about mingw64 compiler and its license on the information given in below.
In addition, the pcynlitx platform uses the liberation font family and therefore, the pcynlitx installer setups liberation font family to the system. Finally, in order to extract the compressed mingw64 files, the mingw64 installer uses "7z" unzip program. The information about "7z" project can be found from the section given in this file.
MINGW64 COMPILER:
The pcynlitx platform requires mingw64 compiler tool chain and mingw64 compiler is installed automatically by pcynlitx installer by means of a second installer. However, each version of the mingw64 compiler uses different thread implementations. Therefore, if you already use a version of a mingw64 compiler, removing the current version is offered in order to be avoid version conflicts.
The pcynlitx platform uses the mingw64 version given in below.
MinGW-W64 GCC-8.1.0, x86_64-posix-seh
Mingw64 License:
Mingw64 copiler can be used with following open source software licenses.
The Public Domain, GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2), Zope Public License
You can find more information about the licenses which are used by mingw64 project, you can look the links given in below.
https://opensource.org/licenses/ZPL-2.0
The official web site and code repository are given in below links.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
7z EXTRACTION TOOLS:
On the installation process, the installer of the pcynlitx uses 7-Zip extraction tools in order to extract mingw64 compiler files into the newly constructed mingw64 directory. 7-Zip is a free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License.
The copyright information for 7zip is given in below. Copyright (C) 2021 Igor Pavlov. The site is hosted at Digital Ocean
You can find more information about 7zip project from https://www.7-zip.org/
THE UNINSTALLATION:
You can directly uninstall both pcynlitx and mingw64 tools from control panel.