imaxima on windows



I'm trying to get imaxima to work under windows.  It seems that
one of my problems is that windows maxima only provides an executable
for xmaxima and not a terminal version for maxima.  (I'm assuming
that a terminal  version is what imaxima needs.) I tried a few things
like

> xmaxima -local

but this loads the TK interface to maxima.   Suggestions?
(I'm mostly going on intuition, so forgive me if I'm loopy.)

Barton