Hello Robert,
the test suite passes on both Windows 2000 and Vista, plotting and the documentation work.
I have no problems with $compile.
I don't know much about Vista, but what I experienced seems buggy or at least
misconcepted. As far as I understand, Vista has a language independend framework and a
language depended cover.
I don't know, if your (I suppose) English Vista has similar problems, but let me report, what
happended when I installed my first program on a German Vista.
It was Maxima 5.12 and I installed it into the directory
"C:\Programme\Maxima-5.12 ..."
The Windows explorer showed me, that Maxima was installed into "C:\Programme" as
expected. But a lot of things didn't work, Xmaxima couldn't start, a lot of error messages
occured.
I deinstalled and installed again, this time into the directory the installer suggested, which
was "C:\program files\Maxima-5.12 ...".
Nevertheless the Windows explorer now showed me, that Maxima was installed into
"C:\Programme" (!). After this installation Maxima works properly.
It seems that Vista suffers from language and path confusion. I didn't check it so far, but
maybe some environment variables do not work properly and some programs (like Maxima)
aren't prepared to this.
HTH
Volker
Am 5 Aug 2007 um 20:39 hat Robert Dodier geschrieben:
> On 8/5/07, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> > > Vadim Zh, if you can create a Windows installer, that would be terrific.
> >
> > Uploaded to SF.
>
> Vadim, thanks for creating the installer. I tried it on Windows Vista
> and it seems to work OK except that some tests fail, namely the
> ones which call the Lisp COMPILE function. It looks like GCL
> cannot find GCC or some part of GCC. I think I had this same
> problem before and I might have fixed it by changing the system
> PATH variable. But it would be better to make it run right out of
> the box. There is also a 5.12.0 installation (from installer
> maxima-5.12.0a.exe) and it runs all tests successfully.
>
> A complicating factor is that there is a broken Cygwin installation
> on this computer (installation failed part way through ... sigh).
> Dunno if that could interfere with GCL + GCC.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Robert
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