Hello Ricard
Thanks for the reply. I think I have understood the concept that xMaxima and wxMaxima are front ends, which in my case ARE running. In the case wxMaxima the "status bar" (bottom right) tells me:
1) Maxima strating. Waiting for connection...
2) Maxima process terminated
Thus, I tried to only get only Maxima going in a shell (then firewall and soon should not be the problem??). I have assumed to get the same output as you where it looks as if Maxima is wating for user input after (%i1). I do not get that, nor the starting splash screen with GNU-license etc. I get absolutely nothing. Therefore I am asking here on list if Maxima perhaps uses some Windows service or some libraries (lisp?) that I might not have on my computer.
Best regards
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Fateman [mailto:fateman at cs.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Fri 10/19/2007 02:34
To: Peter M. Clausen; maxima at math.utexas.edu
Subject: RE: [Maxima] Windows installation problem - no output
> -----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.
(%i1)
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