On 3/3/08, Alejandro Jakubi wrote: > > I intend to continue the long process of getting acquainted > with Axiom and for this purpose I find very convenient the use > of the Texmacs GUI. >
Good. I am very interested in your experience with this. > Currently, on Windows, I have installed Axiom 0.1.4 (January 17, > 2005) and WinTexmacs 1.0.4.4. So, I have thought about updating > Axiom, but binaries are only available for linux. Hence, I have installed > the Windows port of OpenAxiom 1.1.0 (at this point, for me, I guess > that the differences are irrelevant). > I think this OpenAxiom binary for Windows was originally prepared by Alfredo Portes. He might have some more information about how it can be used. I believe that internally there are some differences in how the linux-type commands are handled but I am not sure it that will affect you. So far it seems to work ok for me but I have not tested it extensively. > As you have written a version of tm_axiom.c for Windows, I wonder > whether you have written also a version of "tm_openaxiom.c" to be > able to have also an OpenAxiom session within WinTexmacs. Or, at > least you could tell me what kind of changes have to be made on > tm_axiom.c for this purpose. > I have not written a new version to tm_axiom.c especially for OpenAxiom. In principle, although I have not tested this, the same tm_axiom.c interface should work for both. > By analogy, I guess, I should set an "OPENAXIOM" environment variable > similarly > to AXIOM=C:/axiom/mnt/windows, and replace /bin/AXIOMsys.exe with > /bin/open-axiom.exe. Is it correct? Is that all? > Unlike the original AXIOM program, I do not think it is necessary to set any environment variables for OpenAxiom. After installing OpenAxiom look for the OpenAxiom shortcut on your desktop. Right-click it and then click 'properties'. The correct way to start OpenAxiom is shown in the Target: field. In my case that is: "C:\My Program Files\OpenAxiom\bin\open-axiom.exe" --system="C:\My Program Files\OpenAxiom\lib\open-axiom\i686-pc-mingw32\1.1.0" The exact path names depends on where you decide to install OpenAxiom. You see that instead of the AXIOM variable, the locaction of OpenAxiom is specified in the --system option of the command line. Somehow you will have to arrange to include this option in the tm_axiom program. If you have any trouble with this, please let me know. Regards, Bill Page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
