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MAXIMA BUILD AND INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

INTRODUCTION
============

Maxima is written in Common Lisp. For details about supported Common
Lisp implementations, please see the file README-lisps.md.

You can download installers for Maxima for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 
and RPM based Linux distributions from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/


If you want to build it from source, Maxima can be built in four ways.

(1) Lisp-only build
    
    Lisp-only build is suitable for systems lacking GNU Autotools,
    e.g. MS Windows systems. Lisp-only build creates a Maxima
    executable image, but it does not create the Maxima texinfo
    documentation, it does not adjust various pathnames and other
    environmental variables in the maxima and xmaxima scripts,
    it does not install Gnuplot, and it does not create an 
    installer file (neither RPM or Windows installer).

(2) Win32 build and install

    Win32 build and install is suitable for MS Windows systems
    with GNU Autotools (Mingw or otherwise).

(3) Crosscompiling a Windows installer on Linux/Unix

    An installer for MS Windows can be crosscompiled
    on a Linux/Unix system.

(4) Unix GNU Autotools build and install

    Unix GNU Autotools build and install is suitable for Unix and
    Unix-like systems (e.g. Linux) with GNU Autotools.



LISP-ONLY BUILD
===============

See: INSTALL.lisp


WIN32 BUILD AND INSTALL
=======================

See: INSTALL.win32 (for build instructions with GCL) or 
INSTALL.win32nogcl (for build instructions with CCL/SBCL)


CROSSCOMPILING A WINDOWS INSTALLER ON LINUX/UNIX
================================================

See crosscompile-windows/README.txt for build instructions.


UNIX GNU AUTOTOOLS BUILD AND INSTALL
====================================

IF CONFIGURE SCRIPT IS ABSENT
-----------------------------

Execute ``sh bootstrap'' to create the Maxima configure script.
(configure is absent if the source code is obtained directly
from GIT instead of rpm or tar.gz release file.)


IF CONFIGURE SCRIPT IS PRESENT
------------------------------

``./configure --help'' prints information about configuration options.

To build with GNU Autotools using the default options, type
        ./configure
        make
        make check
        make install
configure supports many options. Type
        ./configure --help
to see them enumerated.

The "make check" step runs the Maxima test suite. The Maxima test
suite is also available at run time via the command run_testsuite();.

If locale under which Maxima is built is not C, POSIX or 
any English language locale then is is highly recommended
to run "make/make install" in C locale
        LANG=C make
        LANG=C make install
Otherwise problems with Maxima on-line help system (describe command)
can be expected.

On certain systems problem with Maxima under Clisp is reported.
When Maxima starts it gives the following error (exact content
of the message may vary) :

*** - invalid byte sequence #xED #x73 #x69 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion
The following restarts are available:
ABORT          :R1      ABORT
Break 1 [2]>

Quite likely this is Clisp installation problem.  One can check
this by running clisp command -- it should produce the same
error message.  Known workaround is to create empty .clisprc
file in user's home directory. 

If you want, you can build the documentation in PDF and EPUB format
(by default these formats are not build). Run
make pdf
after "make" to build PDFs from the reference manual and some
other documents.
make -C doc/info maxima.epub
will generate a EPUB version of the Maxima reference manual in
doc/info/maxima.epub
Calibre is required for building the EPUB, LaTeX is required for
building the PDFs.
If you want to build the Japanese and Russian translation as PDF,
you will need to use xetex instead of pdftex, so call
make pdf PDFTEX=xetex
to build the PDFs.

Generic Autotools build instructions follow.



Basic Installation
==================

   These are generic installation instructions.

   The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
`config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up
reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
(useful mainly for debugging `configure').

   If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
be considered for the next release.  If at some point `config.cache'
contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.

   The file `configure.ac' is used to create `configure' by a program
called `autoconf'.  You only need `configure.ac' if you want to change
it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.

The simplest way to compile this package is:

  1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
     `./configure' to configure the package for your system.  If you're
     using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
     `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
     `configure' itself.

     Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
     messages telling which features it is checking for.

  2. Type `make' to compile the package.

  3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
     the package.

  4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
     documentation.

  5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
     source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
     files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
     a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  There is
     also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
     for the package's developers.  If you use it, you may have to get
     all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
     with the distribution.

Compilers and Options
=====================

   Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
the `configure' script does not know about.  You can give `configure'
initial values for variables by setting them in the environment.  Using
a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like
this:
     CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure

Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:
     env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure

Compiling For Multiple Architectures
====================================

   You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
own directory.  To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.  `cd' to the
directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
the `configure' script.  `configure' automatically checks for the
source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.

   If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time
in the source code directory.  After you have installed the package for
one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
architecture.

Installation Names
==================

   By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc.  You can specify an
installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
option `--prefix=PATH'.

   You can specify separate installation prefixes for
architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you
give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.

   In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
kinds of files.  Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
you can set and what kinds of files go in them.

   If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.

Optional Features
=================

   Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The
`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
package recognizes.

   For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.

Specifying the System Type
==========================

   There may be some features `configure' can not figure out
automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package
will run on.  Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the
`--host=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system
type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields:
     CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM

See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If
`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
need to know the host type.

   If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
system on which you are compiling the package.

Sharing Defaults
================

   If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists.  Or, you can set the
`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.

Operation Controls
==================

   `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
operates.

`--cache-file=FILE'
     Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of
     `./config.cache'.  Set FILE to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for
     debugging `configure'.

`--help'
     Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.

`--quiet'
`--silent'
`-q'
     Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.  To
     suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
     messages will still be shown).

`--srcdir=DIR'
     Look for the package's source code in directory DIR.  Usually
     `configure' can determine that directory automatically.

`--version'
     Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
     script, and exit.

`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.