Successful recreation of maxima 5.5 windows install file (not compile, but install)

Good work. Has anyone tried this package yet? Is the packaging something
that needs to be documented, or is it just a straightforward application
of InnoSetup. I have to confess complete ignorance of Windows packaging
issues.

--Jim

On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 14:24, C Y wrote:
> 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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