maxima for mac os x leopard



Sheldon Newhouse wrote:
> Michel Gosse wrote:
>> As leopard is a unix system, is it planned to build a maxima version for this
>> mac ?
>>
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> I have not tried it on leopard, but I use it on Tiger, both natively, 
> and with VMware fusion and/or Parallels workstation using linux as a 
> guest operating system.
> 
> For the linux guest OS, you just do the usual linux install (either with 
> rpm's or, as I prefer, building from the source).
> 
> For the Mac OS, you have to build from source.   You will need a lisp 
> installed first.  I installed sbcl with fink first, then did the 
> installation from source.  If you want some help on this, just send me 
> some private email.   Also, note that clisp is slow and I could not find 
> cmucl via fink.  sbcl was the only reasonable solution. 

Don't know about fink, but you can get cmucl binaries from 
www.common-lisp.net.  Just grab two tarballs and untar them wherever you 
feel like.  Perhaps that doesn't count as "reasonable" solution?  Clisp 
also works just fine (as does gcl) for what I use maxima for.

Ray