1 The following external tools are needed to build and/or use Maxima:
3 1) A supported Lisp implementation. See README.lisps.
5 2) To build Maxima in the standard manner, Bourne shell and make are
8 3) Maxima can also be built using nothing except Lisp. See
11 4) Plotting uses gnuplot, <http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net>, by
12 default. Plotting can also be done with Maxima's xmaxima
15 5) xmaxima requires Tcl/Tk, preferably version 8.5 or later.
16 xmaxima is both one possible interface to Maxima and a plotting
17 program. As a graphical interface it is not required but as a
18 plotting program it is required by some commands (plotdf, ploteq
21 6) drawdf requires Vtk and its bindings for Tcl/Tk.
23 7) The scene command requires python-vtk
25 8) Building Maxima from GIT additionally requires the GNU autotools.