Subject: Fork of maxima for make it more embeddable.
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:35:53 -0800
On 1/8/12 1:58 PM, Barton Willis wrote:
> maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 01/08/2012 03:39:36 PM:
>
>
>> Sure, but we haven't really done that yet. Ccl seems to work pretty
>> well on Windows and didn't someone already do a windows installer with
>> ccl? Perhaps it's time to drop support for gcl?
>
> Yes, Andrej Vodopivec built a Maxima installer for windows + ccl; see,
> for example:
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2011/024381.html
>
> Two problems:
>
> (1) CCL uses the /SSE2 instruction set. This will be a problem for
> older computers./
> (2) Last I tried, the 32 bit CCL has a bug that creates one test suite
> failure.
>
> I'd guess the CCL developers would fix (2) if we could isolate the
> problem.
> Problem (1) is harder--I've been know to use old computers.
I have some old machines, but only one does not have sse2. And that
machine is so old and slow (1.2 GHz I think) that I don't even want to
use it anymore. I need to take it to the Great Computer Recycling
Center someday.
I'll try to isolate the test suite failure since I do sometimes use
32-bit ccl.
Ray