On 4/12/12 12:33 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Stavros Macrakis
> <macrakis at alum.mit.edu <mailto:macrakis at alum.mit.edu>> wrote:
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> The Maxima ports page at sourceforge
> <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/maxima/index.php?title=Maxima_ports#MacOS_X>;
> has lots of information, but no recommendations. It says that
> Clisp, SBCL, and CMUCL are "A-OK", but doesn't say how to install
> them or Maxima on top of them. There are also links to things
> called Fink and MacPorts, which seem to be twisty mazes of little
> passages. Presumably I just need to install from source. I have
> no problem with that, but instructions would be nice, as I've
> never installed anything on a Mac from source. There must be some
> standard approach to dependency, source, and build management, but
> I'm afraid I don't know anything about those. Can someone help?
> I imagine there is some equivalent to Cygwin and I don't have to
> get down and dirty with ftp, gzip, tar, git, configure, make, etc.?
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> I think OSX comes with everything you need except git. You can
> install git from sources or use Fink or MacPorts to get git.
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> If you have a source tarball for maxima, and you have on of the
> supported lisps installed somewhere, you basically run bootstrap in
> the maxima directory. Then configure and make. (Run configure --help
> for some options, including on specifying which lisp you're using and
> where it's located if not in your PATH.)
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> If you don't have a lisp installed, might be easiest to get ccl from
> clozure.com <http://clozure.com>;.
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> Yes, I know there are lots of detail missing here. :-(
>
> Ray
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git is included with Xcode 4.1 and later, so it's available for 10.7 folks.
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