Maxima fails to run on Mac/SBCL (was Re: help)

aberele at condor.depaul.edu writes:
>> Yep, I meant the terminal. But it seems that sbcl isn't in your
>> path. There are two things to check
>>
>>   (1) There are actually two different ways to build Maxima with
>>       sbcl. One produces a file called maxima.core and the other
>>       produces a file just called maxima. Either file will be upwards of
>>       50mb. You'll need to check which version you've got.
>>
>>  (2a) Assuming that it is a maxima.core, then you presumably do have sbcl
>>       installed somewhere. In that case, what you need to do is find out
>>       where it is and use its path in the command. Something like:
>>
>>         /path/to/sbcl --core /different/path/to/maxima.core \
>>           --end-runtime-options --eval '(cl-user::run)'
>>
>>  (2b) If not, you've actually got a file with a copy of sbcl embedded
>>       inside it, so you might well not have a separate sbcl installed at
>>       all. In that case, try
>>
>>         /path/to/maxima --end-runtime-options --eval '(cl-user::run)'
>>
>>       but make sure that you're pointing at the big file, not the shell
>>       script.
>>
> both 2a and 2b return "No such file or directory"

Right. But look at what I wrote. You need to fill in the path. And only
one of them will work. To see which one, re-read part (1). I'm sorry,
but I'm afraid I don't know much about the Mac filesystem, so I'm not
able to guess the correct paths for you. Probably you can find them out
using the file manager (Finder?)

Rupert
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