Installer for Windows, was: Maxima 5.30.0 / wxMaxima 13.04.1 Windows Binaries

Nico,

many thanks for your efforts to create a Windows installer!

I installed in Vista in a virtual box.

Xmaxima and wxMaxima seem to work, the documentation system also (I only
checked the English), but there are two issues:


1. run_testsuite() shows two unexpected errors (due to GCL version 2.6.6?):

Error summary:
Errors found in
C:/PROGRA~1/MAXIMA~4.0/share/maxima/5.30.0/tests/rtest1.mac, pro
blems:
(38 47)
2 tests failed out of 9,625 total tests.
real time       :    290.580 secs
run-gbc time    :    263.210 secs
child run time  :      0.000 secs
gbc time        :     27.370 secs

********************** Problem 38 ***************
Input:
- 1
--- - 99 + [99.25, 99.25d+0, 99.25d+0, 99.25d+0, 99.25d+0]
 4


Result:
         397             397             397             397             397
[99.25 - ---, 99.25d+0 - ---, 99.25d+0 - ---, 99.25d+0 - ---, 99.25d+0 -
---]
          4               4               4               4               4

This differed from the expected result:
[0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]

********************** Problem 47 ***************
Input:
- 1
--- - 99 + [99.25, 99.25d+0, 99.25d+0, 99.25d+0, 99.25d+0]
 4

displayed
Result:
         397             397             397             397             397
[99.25 - ---, 99.25d+0 - ---, 99.25d+0 - ---, 99.25d+0 - ---, 99.25d+0 -
---]
          4               4               4               4               4

This differed from the expected result:
[0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]


2. When loading a wxm-file wxMaxima prints an error message at the end of
the displayed lines. But it works.

Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
 Error in PROGN [or a callee]: Can't change the current directory to "".
Automatically continuing.
To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.


Volker van Nek


2013/5/26 Nico Bredenbals <nbred at live.uni-paderborn.de>

>  Hey,
>
> did a full recompile with the 13042 and everything seems to work fine
> (only tested very briefly though, according to INSTALL.w32). If you want to
> publish the Installer you can download it from my dropbox (maxima 5.30.0,
> wxMaxima 13.04.2, wxWidgets 2.8.12, GCL 2.6.6, no Unicode):
>
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ow5ekmvho5xoxra/maxima-5.30.0.exe?token_hash=AAF-PaTkGmFRplunG9i7Uh4riohtKLuTL2WD-HLdhpIZaQ&dl=1
>
> I also found the problem with the pt_BR language pack I mentioned: If you
> cancel a build and/or run a make (dist)clean some of the .texti files in
> the pt_BR documentation get removed. I am not sure which of the
> aforementioned actions causes this problem, but a "fresh" version of the
> source works, so I assume there is some problem in the build process,
> either in the html/chm compilation or one of the clean processes.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nico
>  ------------------------------
> *Von:* Volker van Nek [volkervannek at gmail.com]
> *Gesendet:* Samstag, 25. Mai 2013 12:37
> *An:* Nico Bredenbals; Andrej Vodopivec
> *Cc:* maxima at math.utexas.edu
> *Betreff:* Re: [Maxima] Maxima 5.30.0 / wxMaxima 13.04.1 Windows Binaries
>
>    Nico,
>
> Andreij Vodopivec fixed this problem. There is a new source file (wxMaxima
> version 13.04.2) available on sourceforge.
>
>  Volker
>
>
> 2013/5/23 Nico Bredenbals <nbred at live.uni-paderborn.de>
>
>>  I managed to include the language packs, but discovered another
>> Problem: while all tests in wxMaxima went fine, loading files is not
>> possible. Comments are there, but lines are empty. I tried the Ubuntu
>> package currently shipped by apt and it has the same problem - is there a
>> Bug in wxMaxima?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Nico
>>  ------------------------------
>> *Von:* maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu]"
>> im Auftrag von "Nico Bredenbals [nbred at live.uni-paderborn.de]
>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013 15:26
>> *An:* maxima at math.utexas.edu
>> *Betreff:* [Maxima] Maxima 5.30.0 / wxMaxima 13.04.1 Windows Binaries
>>
>>    Hi List,
>>
>> I am currently working on my thesis and have a relatively large markov
>> model to solve. As Maxima 5.28.0-2 gives error messages for some equations
>> I figured I update to the newsest version, unfortunately there were no
>> windows binaries so I tried to compile it myself. While giving me a hard
>> time I got it working and wanted to share the installer if you are
>> interested.
>> Unfortunately I had to exclude the es,pt,ptBR language packs as the .chm
>> compilation complained about missing files. I assume some directories got
>> mixed up as I included the --enable-* in the maxima configure as mentioned
>> in the documentation, but I do have the time to investigate this right now.
>>
>> If you still want to distribute it, is there a way I can send you the
>> installer? Did not want to share a link to my dropbox or whatever on the
>> list as I assume there is a list summary somewhere on the webpage and I did
>> not want to end up as a mirror for an outdated version ;)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Nico
>>
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