Successful recreation of maxima 5.5 windows install file (not compile, but install)
Subject: Successful recreation of maxima 5.5 windows install file (not compile, but install)
From: C Y
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:24:12 -0800 (PST)
This doesn't solve the Windows compile issues, or exactly how to make a
xmaxima binary, but it does address the problem of how to make an all
in one file for installing Maxima on Windows.
Using the InnoSetup program I mentioned earlier, I took the Maxima 5.5
binary that already exists, and successfully packaged it up. The new
install process looks much more like a normal Windows install. I have
tried it several times on a Windows machine I have access to, and so
far it seems to have worked fine. If anyone has a machine that has
never had Maxima installed before, that is a case I haven't checked
yet.
I uploaded the file at
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maxima5.5betasetup.exe if anyone cares to
test it out. Be warned that this is a test, and while it seems to work
on my machine there is no guarantee with something so untried. If it's
as smooth elsewhere as it is on my machine, this should be good for
future releases.
CY
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