Maxima for Mac



At Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:53:11 +0100,
Wolfgang Lindner wrote:
> I and my students are happy using Maxima 4 Windows - some with wxMaxima as
> GUI (because it has look and feel like Maple), some with EULER (Math
> Toolbox) as GUI (because it has look, feel and language like MatLAB and has
> a brandnew pure Maxima mode) ..
> 
> But now some new students are using Mac OS. So:
> 
> - is there a Maxima version for the Mac?
> - Exists an 'EXE'-like-Installer for Mac?
> - What to do to have Maxima running on the Mac?
> - Where to find it for download?
> 
> Any hints are very welcome.

There could be some unofficial prebuild binaries.

  http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/maxima
  http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/clisp-maxima
  http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=maxima


Anyway, it is always possible to install Maxima from sources (.tar.gz).

Get one of the supported Lisp implementations:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/lisp.html

Then download a .tar.gz with Maxima:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933

See the file called "INSTALL" at the root of .tar.gz.
It should be easy:

  ./configure
  make
  make check
  sudo make install

-- 
Yours sincerely,
Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru>