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

Hey,

2) seems to be solved by a new Version from Andrej, I will repackage the binary with this version.

1) I came across the two failed tests during "make check" of maxima, but I thought they occured due to bogus tests:

99.25 - (397/4) = 99.25 - 99.25 = 0 which, while not beeing simplified to its fullest, matches the expected result of 0. I'll see if I can find a newer GCL version with ANSI support for windows and check if this changes the test result. Can anyone confirm that this error does not occur on any other platform?

BTW, running the testsuite with the current maxima 2.8 windows release gives 2 errors not occuring with my 3.0 compilation:

Running tests in rtest16:
********************** Problem 196 ***************
Input:
       60
      2   - 1
float(-------) - 1
         60
        2


Result:
- 1.1102230246251565E-16

This differed from the expected result:
0.0

********************** Problem 197 ***************
Input:
       1000
      2     - 1
float(---------) - 1
         1000
        2


Result:
- 1.1102230246251565E-16

This differed from the expected result:
0.0

619/621 tests passed

>From my point of view this is pretty accurate regarding 32Bit FP, but I am no expert in this field and it's failed test non the less.

Cheers,

Nico
________________________________
Von: Volker van Nek [volkervannek at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 18:41
An: Nico Bredenbals
Cc: Andrej Vodopivec; maxima at math.utexas.edu
Betreff: Installer for Windows, was: [Maxima] 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<mailto: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<mailto:volkervannek at gmail.com>]
Gesendet: Samstag, 25. Mai 2013 12:37
An: Nico Bredenbals; Andrej Vodopivec
Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu<mailto: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<mailto: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
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013 15:26
An: maxima at math.utexas.edu<mailto: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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