First attempts at building under windows



From: James Amundson <amundson at fnal>
Subject: First attempts at building under windows
Date: 19 Nov 2002 13:36:58 -0600
Message-ID: <1037734617.4012.60.camel@abacus.dhcp.fnal.gov>

> Hi,
> 
> We desperately need documentation on building Maxima under windows. I am
> posting my own notes in hopes that they are better than nothing.


I haven't tested it yet, but freewrap 5.4 supposedly fixes the 
"spaces in directory paths" problem:


From: Dennis LaBelle <dlabelle at nycap>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: freeWrap version 5.4 released
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:50:56 GMT

This message announces the release of freeWrap version 5.4

The freeWrap program turns TCL/TK scripts into single-file binary 
executable programs. freeWrap can wrap TCL/TK applications that consist of 
multiple script and binary files. freeWrap combines all the files together 
into a single executable file.

freeWrap 5.4 is based on TCL/TK 8.3.5

freeWrap executables are freely available for both Linux and Windows.

Instructions and source code for building freeWrap on both Windows and UNIX 
platforms is also freely available.

The following additional variations of freeWrap are also available for 
download:

     freewrapBLT         a windowing application that includes TCL/TK and 
the BLT extension (Linux only)
     freewrapTCLSH       a console-only application which includes only TCL.


Please visit the freeWrap home page:

          http://freewrap.sourceforge.net


Changes implemented in version 5.4
------------------------------------

1) Corrected problems that occurred when storing the executable file in 
directory paths that included spaces.

2) The generated executable output file is now placed in the current 
working directory.

3) The [info script] command now returns the name of the called script when 
using freeWrap as a stand-alone TCLSH or WISH.

4) Due to conflicts with antivirus software, under Windows freeWrap is no 
longer compressed using UPX or any other EXE compressor.