[Maxima] [Maxima-commits] Maxima, A Computer Algebra System branch branch-5_27 updated. branch-5_27-base-7-gfc9ff56

[David Billinghurst]

On 1/05/2012 10:59 PM, Jaime Villate wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 01:49 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
>> +    cp $(MINGW)/bin/tclpip84.dll $(prefix)/bin
> Hi David,
> thank you for building the Maxima image for Windows. Could you please 
> make sure to use
> tcl/tk 8.5 rather that 8.4?
> Xmaxima works much better with 8.5.
> Best regards,
> Jaime
>

Thanks for the feedback.

As discussed previously, the current build system for windows uses very 
old (2003) versions of gcc and mingw.  As you have noted, it also uses 
tcl 8.4.  I am not sure if there is a compatible tcl-8.5 available, 
although an update of the tclkit wrapper may be sufficient.

I have an experimental build using recent mingw and gcc, and I hope to 
make a test build of 5.27.0 available shortly.  I will see if I can use 
tcl-8.5 for this release.  Unfortunately, I can only get this working 
under windows xp - builds under windows 7 (and vista) fail.