I have built a windows installer from maxima cvs.
- dosn't support spaces in folder names
- works (including xmaxima) on NT4 and XP
- command line maxima sort of works on windows 95
(and presumably 98/Me) but need to test some more
- xmaxima doesn't work on windows 95
I don't have anywhere to host it, but can upload it somewhere and
update it occasionally.
To get it working I needed to make some monor changes. Open to suggestions
on better ways to acheive the same result.
1. Get the installer to generate a maxima.bat with the new %prefix%
This is done by creating a bat file that echoes the existing maxima.bat file
to stdout, but with %prefix% given by a command line arg. This is run by
the installer to overwrite the original maxima.bat.
2. Define MAXIMA_PREFIX=%prefix% in windows.bat
3. Add the full path to gcc in the variable compiler::*cc*
Done by adding the following line to maxima-init.lisp
(setq compiler::*cc* (concatenate 'string *maxima-prefix* "\\bin\\" compiler::*cc*))