wxMaxima
wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. For more information about Maxima, visit http://maxima.sourceforge.net/. wxMaxima uses wxWidgets and runs natively on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. wxMaxima provides menus and dialogs for many common maxima commands, autocompletion, inline plots and simple animations. wxMaxima is distributed under the GPL license.
wxMaxima is included with the Windows and the macintosh installer for Maxima. Packages are also available for many Linux distributions. Screenshots and documentation can be found at http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/; If you wish to compile wxMaxima from source, please read the instructions below.
Building wxMaxima from source
To build wxMaxima from sources you need to have a C++ compiler and the wxWidgets library installed.
Compiling on Mac OS X
On Mac OS X you should install XCode. To build wxMaxima open the Terminal application and follow the instructions for building with GNU autotools. It is recommended that you compile your own version of wxMac. See the section about compiling wxWidgets.
Compiling on Windows
On Windows install MinGW (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/). In
the installation process make sure you select g++, MSYS Basic System and MinGW Developer ToolKit in the Select components page
of the installer. Then run the MinGW Shell and follow the
instructions for compiling wxWidgets and wxMaxima with autotools.
Compiling wxWidgets on Mac OS X and Windows
Before compiling wxMaxima you need to compile the wxWidgets library. Download the source (we recommend version 3.1 for Mac OS X), unarchive and in the source directory execute
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
You do not need to install the library with make install. You will
need to specify a path to wx-config when configuring wxMaxima. There
are two files in build/lib/wx/config. The correct file to use is
inplace-msw-ansi-release-static-3.1 on Windows and
inplace-mac-unicode-release-static-3.1 on Mac OS X. You will also
need to copy the file wxwin.m4 to acinclude.m4 in the wxMaxima
source directory.
Mac OS X specific instructions
Building on Mac OS X sometimes requires additional arguments to the configure script. To build a portable binary configure wxWidgets with
../configure --disable-shared ---with-libjpeg=builtin --with-libpng=builtin --with-regex=builtin --with-libtiff=builtin --with-zlib=builtin --with-expat=builtin --with-macosx-version-min=10.7
With these options the build process will take a little longer, but the resulting binary will have less library dependencides.
Compiling wxMaxima with autotools
If you are not building an official tarball but using the git version it
is necessary to execute ./bootstrap first in order to get the file
./configure
To build wxMaxima on Linux execute
./configure
make
make allmo
sudo make install
You can also try to create a .deb package instead of installing the program by doing a
./configure
make
make allmo
checkinstall -D make install
On Ubuntu or Debian the build prerequisites can be installed by doing a
sudo apt-get install build-essential libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev autoconf ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 checkinstall gettext
beforehand or (if apt-get is configured to load the source package repositories and not only the binary packages) by the simpler
sudo apt-get build-dep wxmaxima
Mac OS X specific instructions
To build an application bundle of wxMaxima on Mac OS X
./configure --with-wx-config=<path to wx-config> --with-macosx-version-min=10.7
make
make allmo
make wxMaxima.app
Note that the version specified in --with-macosx-version-min should match the version
used when configuring wxWidgets.
Windows specific instructions
On Windows execute instead:
./configure --with-wx-config=<path to wx-config>
make
make allmo
make wxMaxima.win
which builds the directory structure necessary for running wxMaxima. Note that this structure might be lacking a few .dll files, depending on the compiler. They will be named libstdc++-6.dll and libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll or similar.
It is also possible to tell the GNU C compiler to try to include all necessary .dll files in wxMaxima.exe while compiling wxMaxima. In order to make this work wxWidgets has to be compiled statically which allows to include it directly into an .exe file:
./configure --with-wx-config=<path to wx-config> --enable-static-wx -enable-fullystatic
make allmo
make wxMaxima.win
The build system also offers a build target that creates a zip archive whose contents is a self-contained wxMaxima installation that can be placed in the folder maxima was installed in, again with the caveat of the .dll files:
make wxMaxima.win.zip
Compiling wxMaxima with CMake
wxMaxima can also be build using the CMake build system. The following steps will build and install wxMaxima using CMake:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
sudo cmake --build . -- install
If you want to create binary packages (tar.gz, tar.bz2, DEB & RPM), you can create them with:
cmake --build . -- package