Please find in the attachment patch to maxima-5.9.0.9beta2.tar.gz
which probably resolves main troubles on Windows.
Today I verified that with this patch Maxima works well on
Windows 95 ORR2,
Windows 98 SE,
Windows Me
Windows 2000 SP4,
Windows XP Professional,
Windows XP Professional SP1
It would be great if somebody can check this result
independently. The only essential part
of the patch is modification to Paths.tcl.
Two other files xmaxima/win32/InfoBefore.txt and
xmaxima/win32/readme.txt are required by Windows
installer but are missing in maxima-5.9.0.9beta2.tar.gz
(James, please, include them into final release!).
Patch to macdes.lisp is yet another fix to describe -
I included it to check describe/? operation on Windows.
The only problem I have so far is that
compile_file("foo.mac")
doesn't work but I'm almost 100% sure that this is due
to some problem with my local MSYS/Mingw setup.
I'm investigating the problem.
Best wishes,
Vadim
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy@netorn.ru>
Attached file: win.patch