Vadim writes:
> Probably MAXIMA user either wants to build it from source distribution
> by himself/herself, or do download prepared binaries.
> I assume if the user downloads source distribution, (as opposed to
> downloading binaries) then this user has reasonable *nix development
> tools working properly.
This is not true.
> As a side note INSTALL.win32 currently requires quite large list of
> requirements (including Perl but excluding TeX :) )
Presently situation with Windows installation is:
1. You can not build Maxima CVS since automake
doesn't work with ActivePerl.
2. You can build Maxima from the distribution tarball
and this doesn't require Perl since all .html, .info
are present in the tarball.
This is true for the forthcoming Maxima 5.12 and Perl
out of the game here (any version).
For Maxima 5.11 you do need ActivePerl 5.8 but you
still can not build Maxima using CVS.
For Maxima 5.10 and below you can do anything
and Perl 5.6 which comes mingw is enough.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy at mail.ru>
<vvzhy at netorn.ru>