[Maxima-commits] Maxima, A Computer Algebra System branch branch-5_27 updated. branch-5_27-base-7-gfc9ff56
Subject: [Maxima-commits] Maxima, A Computer Algebra System branch branch-5_27 updated. branch-5_27-base-7-gfc9ff56
From: David Billinghurst
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 22:21:54 +1000
On 2/05/2012 9:54 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
> On 1/05/2012 10:59 PM, Jaime Villate wrote:
>> On 05/01/2012 01:49 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
>>> + cp $(MINGW)/bin/tclpip84.dll $(prefix)/bin
>> Hi David,
>> thank you for building the Maxima image for Windows. Could you please
>> make sure to use
>> tcl/tk 8.5 rather that 8.4?
>> Xmaxima works much better with 8.5.
>> Best regards,
>> Jaime
>>
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> As discussed previously, the current build system for windows uses
> very old (2003) versions of gcc and mingw. As you have noted, it also
> uses tcl 8.4. I am not sure if there is a compatible tcl-8.5
> available, although an update of the tclkit wrapper may be sufficient.
>
> I have an experimental build using recent mingw and gcc, and I hope to
> make a test build of 5.27.0 available shortly. I will see if I can
> use tcl-8.5 for this release. Unfortunately, I can only get this
> working under windows xp - builds under windows 7 (and vista) fail.
>
The xmaxima shipped with the windows release of 5.27.0 uses tcl/tk-8.5.8
from tclkit-8.5.8-win32.upx.exe. tclpip84.dll is only used by tclwinkill.