Greetings!
"Mike Thomas" <miketh@brisbane.paradigmgeo.com> writes:
> Live and learn...
>
> > - reviving XMaxima,
>
> I just realised after some input from Dave Billinghurst and an experiment
> that all I had to do to make XMaxima work (at a Cygwin prompt) was:
>
> export MAXIMA_DIRECTORY="c:/cvs/maxima-pre59"
> ./bin/xmaxima
>
> I had previously thought that this would require a build of gcl-tk, which
> meant working around the "fork()" in "gcl-tk/guis.c". This means that a
> Mingw32 xmaxima executable will just need to be built from the xmaxima
> script using freewrap as previosly done by Dave- what a relief!
>
This sounds like a pleasantly low overhead option. What is the matter
with fork() on Mingw32? Not that it is critical, but one day I'd like
to develop a gtk interface for gcl.
Take care,
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
>
>
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