Hi James,
If you use the darwinports infrastructure on OS X
(http://darwinports.opendarwin.org), maxima builds
using openmcl. It used to use clisp, and may again in the
future, now that clisp's OS X bugs seem to be fixed.
After you've installed the darwinports infrastructure,
installation is done by
sudo port install maxima
Darwinports automatically downloads, builds and installs the
dependencies for you.
Best Wishes,
Greg
On Jul 26, 2005, at 3:31 PM, James Hart wrote:
> Hello. My name is James Hart. I have been developing a fairly
> generic, simple interface for basic graphical algebra manipulation,
> which I call MathDrag'n. I have posted about this previously on
> sci.math.symbolic. The thread can be found at
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.math.symbolic/browse_thread/
> thread/a457791bff4e94a5/17e9141820dcc77a?
> q=author:jamesahart79@gmail.com
>
> The MathDrag'n homepage is at http://mathdragn.squarespace.com
>
> MathDrag'n is designed to use a loosely-coupled back-end CAS for more
> complicated calculations that my simple engine shouldn't have to
> handle. Right now, it can use Mathematica 4.2-5.2 on Windows and OSX
> (maybe Linux; I haven't tested it yet, so probably not), and
> Maxima-5.9.1 on Windows.
>
> My basic question is: what do I have to do to get a console version
> of Maxima onto OSX? My basic goal with this request is simplicity: I
> don't want to have four down-loads and three build sessions before the
> user can do anything. MathDrag'n aims for simplicity and ease of use;
> that's why I have done everything I can to distribute it as an
> executable jar (a Windows .exe would be better, but it's too late for
> that). Is there anything available out there that would be fairly
> simple to down-load and/or include, which will run on OSX?
>
> Thank you
>
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