What exactly is your goal, and why would a "stand-alone executable" be
better for your needs than a saved core image?
And what exactly do you think the difference is between a stand-alone
executable for Maxima and a saved core image? After all, a full-function
Maxima system needs most of the functionality of the underlying Lisp
system, including things like garbage collection which require certain
low-level runtime conventions to be respected. And Maxima needs 'eval' if
you're going to allow the user to define functions in Maxima and translate
them into Lisp. This is ignoring explicit escape mechanisms like :lisp and
?atoms.
-s
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:43, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 12:29 PM, Richard Fateman wrote:
>
>> On 11/14/11 11:39 AM, Paul Bowyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hello again, maxima users:
>>>
>>> I'm trying ECL as an experiment because I see that it has the ability to
>>> generate stand-alone executable programs by compiling to 'c' rather than
>>> saved lisp core images that other lisps use and I'm wondering if that might
>>> be something that can be done with the maxima installation somehow.
>>>
>>> I don't know very much about what might be involved so I'm asking in
>>> relative ignorance of what the possibilities are of using that mode of
>>> generating a stand-alone executable of the maxima program.
>>>
>>> I'm sure I need to know a lot more about what I'm asking before I can
>>> even ask an intelligent question on the subject, so this is just a 'dumb'
>>> question at the moment.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insights you may have,
>>>
>>> Paul Bowyer
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>> pretty much a pointless exercise if you are to be faithful to what Maxima
>> does.
>> Since Maxima can execute commands like
>>
>> :lisp ... insert here anything that can be done by lisp....
>>
>> your stand-alone executable would have to include all of lisp, anyway.
>>
>> RJF
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>> RJF
>
> I hadn't thought of that aspect of maxima.
>
> I haven't used maxima to call lisp directly, so barring that usage, would
> compiling maxima down to a stand-alone executable be practical?
>
>
> Paul Bowyer
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