[Maxima-discuss] Why not just DOWNLOAD? was Re: Mac and Windows

[Richard F. <fa...@be...>]

One of us is missing something here.

I installed maxima and wxmaxima on a Mac OS computer from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/
by clicking on

5.30.0-MacOSX

I then followed the instructions in "How to Install",  to install .

Now I found that the previous version of maxima and wxmaxima were 
already there, and so
I did not really have to install some parts, but I followed the 
instructions and re-installed some pieces.
(I didn't re-install X11, but I don't know that it is even needed).

Anyway, it all installed and ran.

Could I have previously installed fink and xcode and macports,
and that's why it was so easy?
  Or, as I suspect, are all these things unnecessary?

Perhaps I'm naive in this but   WHY ARE PEOPLE TELLING YOU TO BUILD 
SBCL, MAXIMA  etc
  when all you need to do
is _download the maxima, wxmaxima, fonts, gnuplot  all together in one 
binary (dmg file) _??

RJF



On 3/19/2014 11:02 PM, Jan Hendrik Mueller wrote:
> I tried to install it in the way Norman described it and had a lot of problems to get wxMaxima working together with a new gnuplot version.
> What I want to say is: wxMaxima is becoming popular at schools. But I can't motivate/force/ask pupils to install it via xcode and macports (BTW: I found a lot of pages where teachers/parents/pupils are complaining about that in the net...)
> Jan
>
>> Am 19.03.2014 um 22:04 schrieb Norman Beam <eph...@gr...>:
>>
>> You can build Maxima, xMaxima, and wxMaxima from scratch with no
>> knowledge of programming using MacPorts. You must be willing to install
>> the OSX development tools (X11 and Xcode) which I think are both free
>> currently.
>>
>> Start here
>>
>> https://www.macports.org/guide/#introduction
>>
>> for what you must install. It is a lot to download but once you do,
>> keeping Maxima up-to-date is pretty easy.
>>
>> If you want to go this route, tell MacPorts to build wxMaxima and it
>> will create everything you need, SBCL, GnuPlot, Maxima, xMaxima,
>> wxMaxima, etc.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 3/19/14 4:23 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
>>>> On 2014-03-19, Erich Neuwirth <eri...@un...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any information if OSX and Windows binaries will be available for 5.32.1 in the near future?
>>> I make the releases and source code bundle and binaries for Linux.
>>> Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows or OSX development environment.
>>> Binaries for those systems are contributed by others, and I don't
>>> have a schedule for that.
>>>
>>> The good news is that for OSX, at least, I believe it is enough like a
>>> conventional Un*xish system for Maxima's build machinery to work so
>>> that you can build Maxima from source code. I don't know the details,
>>> maybe someone can tell us.
>>>
>>> I have built Maxima from source code on Windows, and did get a working
>>> executable, although maybe stuff around the edges (XMaxima / help /
>>> plotting) might or might not have worked as expected. I can say more
>>> about that if you're interested.
>>>
>>> Sorry I can't be more helpful,
>>>
>>> Robert Dodier
>>>
>>>
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