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Hello, list! Pardon me if this question has been asked before; I bet that it has, but that my Google-fu was insufficient to unearth it in the archives.
I'm working on some math software that is currently released under the GPL (see http://lurch.sourceforge.net for details) and would find it very useful if a powerful CAS like Maxima could be built into that project. (I'm currently using a much simpler one, and would like one that's more robust than what I've got.)
I don't see any instructions for compiling Maxima other than going the ./configure, make, make install route, which for two reasons isn't what I'm looking for:
1. That builds a binary for use from the command line, whereas I'd prefer to build a library to which I can make calls, if that's possible. But I'd settle for a command-line tool with stdin/stdout access if that's all there is.
2. It doesn't tell me how to integrate the building of Maxima into my project's existing (cross-platform) build procedure. (I could reverse-engineer the Makefiles after they were generated, if I had to, on each platform, but obviously that unreliable inconvenience is to be avoided if possible.)
Is there a how-to for integrating Maxima into other projects? Perhaps I just didn't find it in my searching. If not, is there anyone to whom I could go for advice?
Thank you very much for any help you can offer!
Nathan Carter
Mathematical Sciences Department
Bentley University
(781) 891-3171
http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/ncarter