Building GCL and Maxima plotting - Windows

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 02:43, Mike Thomas wrote:
> 2.  patching two files in "interfaces/xmaxima" as follows

I've applied your patches and put them in cvs.
 

> NOTES FOR A RELEASE BUILD - JAMES and CAMM:
> 
> 1. I think we should transfer the source code for "winkill.exe" and
> "tclwinkill.dll" from the GCL build tree where it serves no purpose, into
> the Maxima "interfaces/xmaxima" directory.

Ugh. Yuck. Bleah. Maxima does not currently contain any C code, nor any
code that needs to be conditionally compiled only under Windows. I'm
afraid you are right, though -- xmaxima needs it, gcl does not. I'll
look into adding those files to Maxima.

> 2. The resulting xmaxima script is not double-clickable - I'll look into
> that further.

Please let me know if there is something we should do.

Thanks much,
Jim