In release 1.0.8 FriCAS provides Linux biaries and Windows (Cygwin)
binaries. 

Linux Note

Linux tarball contain files (with full pathnames) which would be
installed when building from source using default prefix
(/usr/local/bin). Most of FriCAS files is in usr/local/lib/fricas
subdirectory.  This subdirectory can be moved to any convenient
place.  In the usr/local/bin subdirectory are executable commands
(fricas and efricas).

Linux binaries were build using sbcl-1.0.22.  They were build on
old Linux versions, 32-bit binary on Debian Etch, 64-bit binary
on Mandrake 9.2.  Binaries have only few dependencies: libc,
libm, libutil, libXpm, libSM, libICE, libX11 which should be
present in all desktop Linux systems.  They should work
correctly on many different Linux distributions.

To work correctly FriCAS must know where to find its files.  To ensure
this main FriCAS executables (fricas and efricas) are shell scripts.
If you put main fricas subdirectory in different place than
/usr/local/lib/fricas you need to update path contained in the
scripts.  fricas script contains path just in one place: at
the beginning there is assignment to AXIOM variable.  So, if you
use 64-bit machine and you put fricas files in /home/joe/software/fricas
than you need to change the line:

AXIOM='/usr/local/lib/fricas/target/x86_64-unknown-linux'

to read:

AXIOM='/home/joe/software/fricas/target/x86_64-unknown-linux'

Similarly for 32-bit version, just the final part of the path
is different.  Namely, change:

AXIOM='/usr/local/lib/fricas/target/i686-pc-linux'

to read:

AXIOM='/home/joe/software/fricas/target/i686-pc-linux'

The same change is needed in internal 'axiom' script,
which assuming paths like above will be in file

/home/joe/software/fricas/target/x86_64-unknown-linux/axiom

In efricas script one have to do 2 changes: change FRICASCMD variable
and replace "/usr/local/lib/fricas/emacs" by new value like:

"/home/joe/software/fricas/emacs"

Note: the emacs command line in efricas script must be a single line.
Also, exactly preserve double/single quotes in this files.

CYGWIN NOTE.

Before you install cygwin binaries you need to install Cygwin via
setup.exe from http://cygwin.org/.  FriCAS uses recent Cygwin
version, if you already have Cygwin you may have to upgrade it.

Download fricas-1.0.6.cygwin.tar.bz2.  Start the Cygwin setup program.
The first few questions can be answered with their default values, until
you get to the "Select Packages" dialog.

Clicking on a little + will expand the list of packages. You should
select apart from the defaults the following:

           In Devel: gcc-mingw
                     gcc-mingw-core
           In Math:    clisp
           In Publishing: psutils
                          tetex
                          tetex-base
                          tetex-bin
                          tetex-extra
                          tetex-tiny
                          tetex-x11
           In X11: xterm
                   xinit
                   font-adobe-dpi75
           In Editors: emacs
                       emacs-X11

Complete the Cygwin installation process.

Restart the setup program, but now click on "install from local
directory".  Leave the setting of the cygwin root directory as is, but
set the "local package directory" to the directory containing FriCAS
tarball, as a MS Windows path.