Hi James.
> I am glad to hear you are working on getting Maxima to work on Windows.
Thanks.
> Other people on the Maxima list have discussed various Windows build
> issues. If they would care to step forward we could try to organize the
> effort.
It actually isn't hard once GCL is built.
> Did you use the old build system,
Yes - it works well apart from the already recorded need for
STRING-RIGHT-TRIM in "init_max1.lisp".
> the new build system,
I tried this yesterday but it died during "configure". I haven't had time
to look at this since.
> or something
> else?
Just a native Mingw32 gcc and gcl hosted under Cygwin for the
configuration/shell tools.
> Please be aware that not everything is working in the Unix system,
> particularly the various internal path settings.
Yes, I recall having trouble getting documentation working.
> I don't think xmaxima
> is working right now, either.
Mingw32 Xmaxima fired up and allowed me to do the examples on the opening
screen including plots, which, I must say, seem to over-fill the display
area so that the axis labels are lost and it scrolls badly.
The menus seem a bit dodgy too.
> All these things will be fixed by the time
> we release 5.9.0. In the meantime, it's worth asking on the list if the
> problems you find exist outside of Windows.
Shall do, thanks. Another thing I did yesterday was run make test, which
went for ages before getting an error. Once again, I havn't followed up on
that yet.
Cheers
Mike Thomas.