On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
> Once again, openmcl (aka ccl and Clozure CL) builds a command line
> Maxima using Windows XP that passes all tests. Mostly due to sloth, I
> haven't done a full build using openmcl under Windows. (I have Perl
> 5.6 and 5.10, but seem to need 5.8, or something like that. I'd guess
> I have other missing components too.) To build using Clozure, I need
> to replace Maxima's defsystem with the one provided by Clozure.
I think the Makefiles were changed so that Maxima always uses the
defsystem provided by Clozure.
I built Maxima 5.20 with ccl on Windows. With a small change to
maxima.bat "make install" creates something which I can use from
wxmaxima and command line. Mostly everything works (I tried ? solve;
load(lapack); f(x):=..., compile(f);).
I have two issues:
1) plotting does not work (we need to change the $system command so
that it works on windows),
2) wxmaxima can't interrupt computations if maxima hangs. This will be
a problem for xmaxima too.
The first should be easy to fix. The second is a little harder for me.
We could copy what gcl does, preferably so that it works for all lisps
which can be supported on windows. Maybe someone who knows about ffi
can help. It would be nice to have complete support for more than just
gcl on Windows.
Andrej