Application: Maxima
Category: Education
Description:
Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.
Download Maxima Portable 5.41.0 Development Test 1 [101MB download / 540MB installed]
(MD5: 341221383679fa680f5575cc7ade7e74)
Release Notes:
5.41.0 Development Test 1 (2017-11-28)
- Updated to Maxima 5.41.0
5.40.0 Development Test 1 (2017-06-11)
- Updated to Maxima 5.40.0
5.39.0 Development Test 1 (2017-03-06)
- Updated to Maxima 5.39.0
5.38.1 Development Test 1 (2016-09-18)
- Updated to Maxima 5.38.1
5.37.3 Development Test 1 (2016-02-05)
- Updated to Maxima 5.37.3
5.36.1 Development Test 1 (2015-05-27)
- Updated to Maxima 5.36.1
5.35.1 Development Test 1 (2015-01-12)
- Updated to Maxima 5.35.1
5.31.2 Development Test 1 (2014-03-17)
- Updated to Maxima 5.31.2
- Removed Xmaxima GUI, making wxMaxima the default (and only)
5.24.0 Development Test 1 (2011-04-20)
- Updated to Maxima 5.24.0
5.23.2 Development Test 1 (2011-02-27)
- Updated to Maxima 5.23.2
5.21.1 Development Test 2 (2010-04-28)
- Launcher now displays an error when trying to run from a path with spaces
5.21.1 Development Test 1 (2010-04-27)
- Updated to Maxima 5.21.1
- Fixed the maxima.bat process looking in the wrong directory for maxima.exe
- Fixed crash with maxima.exe on startup
- Fixed crash with PA.c Launcher when trying to load wxMaxima and XMaxima at the same time
5.21.0 Development Test 1 (2010-04-24): Initial release
Known issues:
- Language switching has not yet been implemented
- wxMaxima will not run from a path that contains spaces
Notes:
- Taken over from previous packages by wmacevoy and aamiel here
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The interface starts and works here but maxima does not start. I found 2 errors:
1)Uncompress:
\MaximaPortable\App\Maxima\lib\maxima\5.21.0\binary-gcl\maxima.exe
For some reason it does not like being compress and you save nearly no space compressing it.
2)In:
PortableApps\MaximaPortable\App\Maxima\bin\maxima.bat
Change the line:
set maxima_prefix=C:\PROGRA~2\Maxima
to
set maxima_prefix=%~dp0%..
It should then be working
Apart from that, great work
EDIT: Also found this in you xmaxima launcher
settings\.xmaximarc=%USERPROFILE%
I believe should be
settings\.xmaximarc=%DOCUMENTS%
1. Hmm, that's odd. It works for me, I'll look into it after class.
2. Wouldn't that never be set from the .bat file anyway, since it is set in the launcher? Doesn't it first check if it's set before setting it? (Though, I'll take a look at this too.)
3. What version of Windows are you using? For me, the .xmaximarc file is put into "C:\Users\Kenny Williams" which is %USERPROFILE%. Where is it placed for you?
Up to now I only tried it on my work PC, XP SP2 with "My Documents" mapped on a network drive H:
1.] Seems to crash on startup if 2.] is implemented
2.] I think it is set by the launcher then overwritten by the BAT file. If not corrected, here maxima does not start. I guess it can't find it.
3.] for me the file ends up in "My Documents"
Will try at home later today
1.] Confirmed.
2.] Confirmed, only some of the other paths are checked for in the .bat file. MAXIMA_PREFIX is set regardless.
3.] Cannot reproduce. It's still %USERPROFILE% for me, and Gringoloco tested it on XP SP3 and it's put in %USERPROFILE% for him as well.
Can you confirm that the registry plugin is doing it's job or not ?
Formerly Gringoloco
Windows XP Pro sp3 x32
Updated and fixed some bugs.
Can someone do a regshot for wxMaxima and XMaxima? I haven't been able to because Regshot keeps crashing on me for some reason.
A quicky... Bad news... Other than the usual Windows crap, these were left on XP SP2 system:
As for files, it's clean.
My posts are old and likely no longer relevant.
There has to be something wrong with XP SP2, as there have been a lot of problems lately with it. I thought this was fixed though.
These should not be left behind, as I have this in the launcher:
EDIT: I just looked in the PA.c Launcher thread, and it was aamiel who originally reported this (with Maxima), but it was supposedly fixed. I'll have to talk to Chris about this.
Launcher now shows an error when trying to launch from a path with spaces, since the maxima.exe process terminates.
Should I include a "Command Line Maxima" launcher, or leave it as is?
I believe that this software is worth a command line launcher
It works! First version didn't work though.
Keep up the good work!
Since this release, Maxima has gone thourough a few iterations. They do not change the way the launcher works.
Any plan to update?
I haven't updated because I wanted to fix a few things first (add language switching, etc.), but since I've been so busy I just might have to update the base app only.
I understand. It is not a problem. Thanks for your work
Sorry for not doing this sooner, but I've been busy with homework and studying.
I hope to have an update this weekend, but no promises.
Updated to Maxima 5.23.2
I will start using it next week.
In Maxima.bat, you forgot to change the line to:
set maxima_prefix=%~dp0%.. as detailed above.
Arnaud
I take care of that environment variable within the launcher.ini.
For some reason, it is not working here, wxMaxima does start fine, but not Maxima itself.
By changing maxima.bat by hand as indicated, everything works fine
I am using windows7 64 bit
Arnaud
Works perfectly for me (just tested again). I'll take a look at it later. Maybe I'll add code into the maxima.bat file to check if it's already set, otherwise use set maxima_prefix=%~dp0%.. (like it does with the image and temp directories).
I wanted to avoid having to customize any code in the App\Maxima directory in case I forgot to save it through updates, but it looks like I might have to.
I am currently trying to fix my XP pc which has a blown power supply. I will try on there (or at work).
I understand what you are trying to do but it is not working here... for now.
Arnaud
Could you do a clean install, run XMaxima, and copy+paste the folder url from the window?
file:/G:/PORTAB~1/MAXIMA~1/APP/MAXIMA/share/maxima/523~1.2/xmaxima/INTRO~1.HTM
And then Maxima does not start.
I think that maybe your launcher sets the environment variable to the right value but that it is then overwritten by the maxima.bat script.
Let me know if I can be of any help.
I believe XMaxima uses maxima_prefix to find that directory (you can test it, I'm not 100%), which is the correct path. Which makes it even more odd that it doesn't work.
Simply
set maxima_prefix=%~dp0..
is still with a subtle problem: it can cause .. to be inserted into some file searching list that can't be correctly interpreted by maxima.
What we need here is retrieve the literal value of the batch's parent folder. IMO the following is better:
pushd %~dp0..
set maxima_prefix=%cd%
popd
I'll look into this the next time I have time to update it. Thank you.
Maxima is not my friend at all. I've realized that it worked for me before because I had installed a local copy, so now I understand why it doesn't work. However, there appears to be a bug in Windows 7 such that %dp0.. won't work if there's a space in the path. I commented out that line in maxima.bat and left it to the launcher, but it still doesn't work.
Have a look there:
Windows 7 dp0 bug.
That's exactly the bug to which I was referring.
In this post I assume you mean
%~dp0, not%dp0, if you used%dp0you could try%~dp0;).The Batch interpreter simply replaces
%~dp0with the path, exactly as it is, thus if the Batch file that's running isX:\Path To\Folder\file.batand the line of the Batch file iscommand %~dp0then the line read to the Command Prompt will becommand X:\Path To\Folder\and command will think you are giving it two parameters 1st X:\Path and 2nd To\Folder, and this will confuse alot of programs, so you should quote the%~dp0like socommand "%~dp0"and since DOS (and Windows' "Command Prompt") understands that anything between quotes is all one thing, command should now realize that it's getting one parameter of"X:\Path To\Folder\".Note: I have noticed that some commands don't like the \ on the end of
%~dp0paths, so if you can figure out how to make it ignore the last letter (preferably without copying it to another environment variable and then using it) I'd appreciate that.~3D1T0R
I used %~dp0.. (quoting also didn't work).
As for your note, %cd% should do what %~dp0 does without the last \ (though I haven't tried it and I'm done for today).
%cd% refers to the working directory, whereas %0 refers to the batch file under execution.
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Yeah, that too.
EDIT: Well, now it gets to "Maxima started, waiting for connection," but never goes any further than that.
That's exactly why I don't want to keep using %CD%, currently I've got a couple of Batch files which I have shortcuts to, just so that I can set the "Start In:" option for the shortcut and have %CD% point to the right location. ugh :(.
@ScriptDaemon: I'm sorry I apparently couldn't be of much help to you on this one.
~3D1T0R
Any way you can just ditch the batch and do it all in PAL, possibly with custom code? I know a couple other apps use batch files locally for launching but we just use code instead.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
But it's not PAL that launches the batch script, it's wxMaxima and XMaxima.
PAL -> wxMaxima.exe/xmaxima.exe -> maxima.bat -> maxima.exe
If that's the case, can you have PAL launch maxima.exe directly? And if not, how about a custom NSIS script to handle the bits in the .bat that don't work right.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
If I launch maxima.exe directly, then it won't launch wxMaxima or XMaxima. Is there a way to tell wxMaxima.exe to stop calling maxima.bat and let PAL handle it instead? (I wouldn't think so though, because I think maxima.exe has to be a child process of wxMaxima.exe.)
The only part that doesn't work right is setting the maxima_prefix env var, which I try to handle with PAL by commenting out that line and setting it in the env var section of the launcher.ini file.
That should work then since it's a child of a chile process.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Yet it doesn't, which is why I'm having difficulties. I'll take another look at it and if I still can't figure it out I'll .zip it up and see if anyone else has any ideas.
EDIT: When launching Xmaxima, a console and a browser is loaded. The browser shows things like help files I guess, but the interesting thing is that it points to the correct file, yet maxima.exe still doesn't want to connect.
You could update the .bat using the FileWriteN in config mode and give it a full path each time. That would do it.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Still not working. Tried in paths with and without spaces, and checked the .bat file and it is indeed edited correctly.
EDIT: Here is a link to the current version. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1442139/MaximaPortable.zip Maybe having others take a look at it will help pinpoint the problem.
EDIT 2: Oops, when I copied it from one directory to another, not everything copied (the cmd.exe process was still hanging). Should be okay now.
Comparing your version with the previous working version, I found that in "maxima.bat" on the first line removing "rem" makes it work
so
becomes
Don't ask me why though...
I commented that out when I was debugging. And now it does work (albeit only from a directory with no spaces, but that's Maxima's problem).
I'll package this up later today. There are some other things I want to try getting to work in this.
'set maxima_prefix=%~dp0%..'
and not
set maxima_prefix='%~dp0%..'
Sorry, I can't try it at the moment...
I'll try it when I get out of class. I still don't think that's the issue though. When commenting out that line entirely and leaving it to PAL, the maxima_prefix variable is what it should be, and it still hangs for some reason.
I just realized that you're using PAL, so you could probably use %PAL:AppDir%\Maxima.
So I'll suggest that you try that:
~3D1T0R
This is easier to update, however. If I do it that way, I have to manually edit the .bat file every update. The way it works now, it's taken care of.
If you've got it working, and you're happy with it, then I'll stop thinking about it.
~3D1T0R
This release should actually work now (=P).
Maxima doesn't support paths with spaces after all, and I figured out what mistake I made last time to make me think that it did.
It took so long for a release because I tried to get language switching to work. Understanding the VB script it uses (for whatever reason) a little better, it appears to look at the LANG environment variable, however wxMaxima appears to always override it so I can never change it even with PAL. I'll have to dig deeper.
Thanks for all the hard work. It seems to be working fine here, but I don't use language switching and I have no spaces in my path(like, I guess, most of the PAf platform installations).
I'm working on a project that requires me to graph a function (i.e. y = x^2), then rotate that graph around a specified line (i.e x = 4). Something like this is exactly what I need my final result to be.
Keeping in mind that I'm on Windows, so gnuplot_pipes isn't available, do you know if I can do this with Maxima? If Maxima can't, do you know of a tool that can do this? I know Maple and Mathematica can, since I have the Mathematica source code for the movie I linked to above, but I can't figure out a way to have Maxima or another portable, OSS app do the same thing.
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I see you did a great job here.
how you add wxMaxima? you compile it by yourself?
Thanks for your time.
Sorry for the (very) late update.
With this release, I have removed the Xmaxima GUI entirely as we are moving away from multi-app packages. However, with this leaves one thing to question: Should this remain Maxima Portable, or instead should I change the app ID entirely to wxMaxima Portable? Thoughts?
if you asking me, i think you need to change it to wxMaxima.
the purpose of the wxMaxima, it to take maxima, and add her another GUI.
and i assume you taking the project from here:
http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/
so in short answer it will be: wxMaxima
tal.
This was taken from Maxima's sourceforge site. wxMaxima is bundled with Maxima.
Updated to Maxima 5.35.1
Updated to Maxima 5.36.1
Am I the only one to have maxima to crash when launching a plot?. (gnuplot issue)
I'm running it under windows 7 enterprise
Thks for any support
BR
Sorry for the late response, this was buried in my emails.
What exactly are you seeing when this occurs? Have you tested against the base application installed separately?
I've tested using gnuplot as the plot format, and I do indeed receive a pop-up message stating that the program can't load correctly. Does this happen to you using the base app as well, or just the portable app?
It could be an issue of not finding the path, as they a script to load the environment that I bypass in the launcher, so it's possible I left something out. I should be able to take a look at this sometime this week, hopefully, to verify and fix.
I have tested the portable version on my personnal laptop (win8.1) and it creates wxplot without issue.
The base one is working too.
Same commands on my professional laptop (win7) and it crash. Can't install the base one here.
I get a window saying "wgnuplot.exe has stopped working" with 2 options "check online for solution and close the program" or "close the program.
Here are the problems details:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wgnuplot.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5f223a6d
Fault Module Name: libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001b009
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Locale ID: 1036
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Wondering if it is a compatibility issue between my win7 version and wgnuplot.
When I tried to launch wgnuplot under the maxima folder ... it crashes too.
What ever the compatibility options I choose ... crash
???
Have to say an earlier portable version is working
wxmaxima 13.04.2 - maxima 5.31.12
Sorry about the lack of activity on this. I've been busy with a new job and getting close to my move date.
Just thought I'd let you know that this might be a little delayed (more than it already has, I suppose).
Updated to Maxima 5.37.3
For some reason, the gui during the first launch is screwed up. I'll have to look into this a little more to find out what's causing that.
Other than that, this seems to work for me so I hope any previous issues have been resolved.
Hi.
I try this new update and have same problem with plots.
" wgnuplot.exe - Application Error. This application was unable to start correctly (0x0000005)."
Hello,
What version of Windows are you using?
Have you tried installing Maxima directly (i.e. not using the portable version)?
If so, did you experience the same error?
Thank you.
Updated to Maxima 5.38.1
Maxima 5.39.0 is released.
Could you update please?
Thank You.
Updated to Maxima 5.39.0
Sorry for the delay.
Thank You Very Much!
Downloading...
Thank you so much
Hello,
Any chance for updated version for version 5.4?
Anyone can make it official release?
Thank You.
[Duplicate comment removed - mod GC]
Updated to Maxima 5.40.0. Might want to give it some time to mirror.
Sorry for the delay.
Updated to Maxima 5.41.0
Please, can an one Updated Maxima 5.41 portable? It's working in Windows 10 perfectly but it's not working in Windows 11 (my be .bat file).