Crosscompiling Maxima for Windows
=================================

On a Ubuntu/Debian System just install some tools for crosscompiling:

apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-i686 cmake nsis wine automake texinfo rsync p7zip-full tcl-dev tk-dev texlive g++ libgl1-mesa-dev gettext

(If you are using a 64 bit operating system, it might be necessary to add
the i386 architecture (https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO) before).

Then you can extract the Maxima sourcecode or clone the git repository
and start the crosscompiling-process:


cd crosscompile-windows/build # change to the build directory
cmake ..
make
make package

This will download the required Software (CLISP, Gnuplot, wxMaxima,
wxWidgets, Tcl, Tk, jsMath TeX Fonts, SBCL, VTK) from the Internet
into the directory "crosscompile-windows/download".

The packages will be compiled (if necessary) and a Windows 
installer for Maxima is generated.

This should work (at least) on Ubuntu and Debian (I hope on other
Linux-Distributions too...).
(if you want you may even omit the first "make")

Instead of "make clean" just remove everything in the build directory.

If you want to use the current wxMaxima development version, you can use
cmake -DUSE_WXMAXIMA_GIT=YES ..

If you want to exclude VTK, use
cmake -DUSE_VTK=NO ..
(Attention: The size of the installer will approximately be 50% larger
than without VTK).


In case a new release of a software is released (and no new patches are needed),
it should be sufficient to just increase the version number and MD5-checksum
for the new release in CMakeLists.txt.


Building a 64 bit installer
===========================

By default a 32 bit installer (which works on 32 and 64 bit Windows) will be
generated. If you want to crosscompile a 64 bit installer, install the 64 bit
crosscompiler package (g++-mingw-w64-x86-64) and a recent 64 bit 'wine'.
(see https://www.winehq.org/download how to get a development version
for your Linux distribution). For the 64bit crosscompiliation procedure wine64
will be searched in /opt/wine-devel - where the packages from the wine team
will install their packages.

Then use the following commands to build a 64 bit installer:
cmake -DBUILD_64BIT=YES ..
make
make package


Installing the package
======================

Of course just by double-clicking/executing the generated EXE on
Windows. This Maxima installer installs into C:\maxima-VERSION,
changing this directory is not recommended (because special characters
or foreign language characters might cause problems).

If you want to do an *unattended* installation (e.g. if you plan to
install Maxima on many computers in a school, university or company),
this installer (and uninstaller) understands the command line switch
"/S" (for 'silent install').

To select a installation directory for a unattended installation, use
"/D=directory", e.g. to install to C:\maxima the command would be:
maxima-clisp-sbcl-VERSION-win32.exe /S /D=C:\maxima

Testing the installed package:
==============================

After building it, you can (and should) test the new Maxima installation 
package. Install it on Windows and check that the installation (and later
the deinstallation) works properly. To test Maxima, try the following:

 o Run the maxima testsuite: run_testsuite()
 o Try compiling a function.  This has been a problem in the past
    - f(x):=x+2;
    - compile(f);
    - f(2);
 o Test the graphics systems in both xmaxima and wxmaxima
    plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,10]);
    plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,10],[plot_format,xmaxima]);
    plot3d(x*y,[x,-1,1],[y,-1,1]);
    scene(cone);
    plotdf([-y,x],[trajectory_at,5,0]);
    load(draw)$
    draw3d(xu_grid = 30, yv_grid = 60, surface_hide = true,
          parametric_surface(cos(phi) * sin(theta),
                       sin(phi) * sin(theta),
                       cos(theta),
                       theta, 0, %pi, phi, 0, 2 * %pi))$
 o Check that plotting to Postscript works
    plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,10],[ps_file,"ps_test.ps"]);
 o Try out the on-line help: describe(sin)
 o Try out, if external packages (e.g. lapack) work:
   load(lapack);
   fpprintprec : 6;
   M : matrix ([9.5, 1.75], [3.25, 10.45]);
   dgeev (M);

   should return the eigenvalues of M (and false, false since we did
   not compute eigenvectors: [[7.54331, 12.4067], false, false]

 o Check that the windows help files work from the Start menu 
   and from within xmaxima and wxmaxima
 o Try if double-clicking on a .wxmx file opens it
 o The wxMaxima source comes with a file (test/testbench_simple.wxmx)
   that tries to trigger everything that has gone wrong in previous
   wxMaxima builds.  They include the commands that will test the
   graphics system in the next step.
   Open that file and then select "Cells/Evaluate all cells" in this
   file and check if the file is processed correctly.

