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