A new windows installer for maxima 5.28.0 - the draw package works (for me)
Subject: A new windows installer for maxima 5.28.0 - the draw package works (for me)
From: David Billinghurst
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:44:56 +1000
There is a windows installer at
http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.28.0-2.exe
Unlike maxima-5.28.0.exe of 25 Aug, the draw package works (at least for
me). I broke it while "improving" the windows configure and build
process. Sorry about that. I have added a note to INSTALL.win32 to
remind me to check this in future.
As with past windows binaries this is built with an ancient mingw/msys
and gcl/gcc-3.3.1. I now have the technology to build with a newer
mingw/gcc and/or with other lisps. As with other recent releases, there
are two testsuite failures. These seem to be due to the version of gcc
used to compile gcl. They don't occur with gcc-4.6 (but this has other
issues).
Error summary:
Errors found in
C:/PROGRA~1/MAXIMA~3.0/share/maxima/5.28.0-2/tests/rtest16.mac, problems:
(196 197)
2 tests failed out of 9,351 total tests.
********************** Problem 196 ***************
Input:
float((2^60-1)/2^60)-1
Result:
-1.1102230246251565E-16
This differed from the expected result:
0.0
********************** Problem 197 ***************
Input:
float((2^1000-1)/2^1000)-1
Result:
-1.1102230246251565E-16
This differed from the expected result:
0.0
These seem to be due to the version of gcc used to compile gcl. They
don't occur with gcc-4.6 (but this has other issues).