Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.s... at t-online.de>
> Robert Dodier wrote:
>> Maxima can run on MS Windows and various flavors of Unix,
>> including MacOS X.
> Excuse me for a dumb question. Does it run on 64 bit Windows 7?
I don't know about that. Does anybody know?
It is generally true that 64-bit versions of Windows will run just about
any 32-bit Windows application. Users typically run 32-bit Firefox on
64-bit Windows just fine. So if you compile on a working 32-bit Lisp
implementation, or grab an already-built 32-bit Maxima, it should work
exactly as it does on 32-bit Windows.
It is a different question whether Maxima will build and run entirely
correctly on any particular 64-bit Lisp implementation. There may be
places in Maxima code that have unintentional/undiscovered dependencies
on word size, etc.