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 openmath
13 application. openmath requires Tcl/Tk.
15 5) The xmaxima front-end requires Tcl/Tk. xmaxima is only one
16 possible interface to Maxima. It is not required.
18 6) Building Maxima from CVS additionally requires the GNU autotools.