Re: Maxima for Windows?


Jaap Spies wrote:
Axel Vogt wrote:
Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote:
At least a related question: does it admit a call from C programs
(in the sense of a DLL) or has it any interfaces to use it from
external?

A related answer. Maxima comes as part of SAGE (Software for Algebra and
Geometry Experimentation). From SAGE you can call any Maxima function, etc.

See http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/

Jaap

Another option is maxima's "batch mode". If you just want something
quick and dirty, output a script into a file and then exec maxima -b on
the file, reading back the stdout (or get your maxima script to perform
some write operations). This is obviously not something you want to do
lots of times, so it would only be useful if you had some high-level
operation you could call from maxima.

I don't believe there's a straight library in maxima itself for
calling, say, the "factor" routine - it seems unlikely as maxima is
written in lisp, which I shouldn't imagine lends itself to exporting a
C-like library.

Finally, I should point out that if you want to perform a lower level
operation, there might be other libraries you can use. For example
arbitrary precision integer/floating pt. arithmetic are handled by lots
of libraries including e.g. GMP.

Hope this is of interest,

Rupert

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