> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Peter M. Clausen
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:50 PM
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Windows installation problem - no output
>
> Hello Everyone
>
> I am a newbie trying to get maxima 5.13.0 running on my
> centrino laptop with windows XP, SP2. After standard
> installation wxMaxima and xMaxima runs,
Do you mean the whole program runs, including the interface??
Or do you mean just the interface, and maxima (the actual symbolic math)
does not run? In which case, do you get any messages?
If the maxima system does not run it is most likely you have a firewall
preventing the front end from opening a socket to attach to the maxima
executable.
Is there some reason you want to run it as a shell command? It is not
something newbies usually want to do.
The (presumably correct) response to the line .... maxima.bat -v looks like
this on my system....
C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.13.0\bin>maxima.bat -v
maxima.bat -v
C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.13.0\bin>if "gcl" == "gcl" goto dogcl
C:\Program
Files\Maxima-5.13.0\bin>C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.0\lib\maxima\5.13.0\binary-gcl\
maxima.exe -eval "(cl-user::run)" -f -- -v
Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
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