You first have to install a lisp version.
I took the source tar package, compiled and installed it.
Do, either or both of
port sbcl
port clisp
If you do both, this installs sbcl and clisp. As far as I know, cmucl is not available.
fink said that it had gcl, but I could not get it to install.
After you have either or both of clisp and sbcl installed, you
compile and install maxima.
I took the source package and put it in /usr/local/src. I don't
remember if I had to unzip it or that happened automatically.
Right now, I have in /usr/local/src the tar file
[sen at basie src]$ pwd
/usr/local/src
[sen at basie src]$ ls -ld max*11*
drwxrwxrwx 48 9747 100 1632 Jan 14 16:58 maxima-5.11.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 sen sen 55848960 Jan 10 01:17 maxima-5.11.0.tar
The subdirectory 'maxima-5.11.0' was created by untarring
'maxima-5.11.0.tar'
Then, decide which lisp you want to use. Note that clisp is very slow
for me, but sbcl is kinder in developing new packages. So, you may
want both.
I don't know if they can be compiled simultaneously, so I compile them
one and at time, install them both in /usr/local/bin
Here is the procedure for installing with sbcl
As root (or with root privileges) assuming you have sbcl installed and
maxima-5.11.0 in /usr/local/src
[sen at basie maxima-5.11.0]$ pwd
/usr/local/src/maxima-5.11.0
[sen at basie maxima-5.11.0]$ su
Password:
[root at basie maxima-5.11.0]# configure --with-sbcl; make install
cp /usr/local/bin/maxima /usr/local/bin/maxima-sbcl
cp /usr/local/bin/rmaxima /usr/local/bin/rmaxima-sbcl
cp /usr/local/bin/xmaxima /usr/local/bin/xmaxima-sbcl
Then, repeat, replacing 'sbcl' by 'clisp'
HTH,
-sen
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Alexander Barfield wrote:
> Can anyone give me instructions on how to install Maxima on a Mac with OS X
> Tiger 10.4?
>
> Alex
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