[MACTCL] Maxima and Tcl/Tk

[Lizardo H. C. M. N. <li...@ur...>]

Hi,

That's my first post to this list. I don't know anything about Tcl/Tk.

Well, I've just built Maxima pre-5.9. Maxima is the only open source 
nice package that I know for symbolic calculation.( Refer to 
http://maxima.sourceforge.net )

It uses Tcl/Tk for plotting and GUI. So far I've only got a command-line 
tool. So, if any Tcl/Tk guy is interested in helping me to get a fully 
working Maxima, I'd really appreciate.

Just give Maxima a try would be worthy. It's pretty trivial to build; 
instructions below for those who are interested. More details in 
maximadoc.pdf available at site above.

Thanks,
Lizardo.


Compiling maxima:

1) Get sources
Sources at CVS: once connected to the Internet, using Terminal.app type:

cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/maxima
login

password: < return >  <---- just press enter

Then
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/maxima
co maxima-pre59

and you create a maxima-pre59 folder

2) Get Clisp.
All you need is clisp-2.27, available with Fink
http://fink.sourceforge.net

3) Compile, 3 steps:
Go to the folder "maxima-pre59/src/"
type:
make clisp-compile CLISP=clisp

make maxima-clisp.mem CLISP=clisp

make test-clisp CLISP=clisp

you will get (luckly):
..Which was correct
Congratulations: No differences!
No Errors Found
Real time: 86.89109f0 sec.
Run time: 27.15f0 sec.
Space: 24505028 Bytes
GC: 17, GC time: 2.72f0 sec.

4)Using:
again, at "maxima-pre59/src" type

%chmod +x maxima-clisp.mem
% clisp -M maxima-clisp.mem

Maxima works. Have fun.