Clisp, CMUCL, Scieneer Common Lisp (SCL), GCL (ANSI-enabled only) and SBCL can compile and execute Maxima. Allegro Common Lisp and OpenMCL might also work, but have not been fully tested.
Ports to other ANSI Common Lisps should be straightforward and are welcome; please post a message on the Maxima mailing list if you are interested in working on a port.
For specific Maxima and Lisp version number combinations,
see the ports page at the Maxima wiki:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?Maxima%20ports
When Maxima is recompiled, the Lisp implementation is selected by an argument of the form `--enable-foolisp' for the configure script. `./configure --help' shows a list of the Lisp types recognized by configure (among other options). Always specify the Lisp type; configure tries to autodetect the Lisp type if it is not specified, but it has been reported that autodetection can fail.
Clisp http://clisp.cons.org http://clisp.sourceforge.net
Clisp includes GNU readline support, so Maxima has advanced command-line editing facilities when built with it.
Clisp is compiled to bytecodes, so Maxima running on Clisp is substantially slower than on Lisps compiled to machine instructions. Clisp computes floating-point operations in software, so floating-point operations in Clisp are much slower than in Lisps which make use of hardware instructions for floating-point operations. On the other hand, Clisp makes use of the GMP library for arbitrary- precision integer computations.
There are Clisp implementations for many platforms including MS Windows and Unix-like systems.
CMUCL http://cmucl.cons.org
CMUCL is a fast option for Maxima on platforms where it is
available. The rmaxima front-end provides advanced line-editing
facilities for Maxima when compiled with CMUCL. rlwrap is available
from http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap .
CMUCL versions: 18e and 19a are known to work.
There are CMUCL implementations only for Unix-like systems (not MS Windows).
Scieneer Common Lisp (SCL) http://www.scieneer.com/scl
Scieneer Common Lisp (SCL) is a fast option for Maxima for a
range of Linux and Unix platforms. The SCL 1.2.8 release and later
are supported. SCL offers a lower case, case sensitive, version which
avoids the Maxima case inversion issues with symbol names. Tested
front end options are: maxima emacs mode available in the
interfaces/emacs/ directory, the emacs imaxima mode available from
http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/, and TeXmacs
available from
http://www.texmacs.org/
GCL http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gcl
GCL versions starting with 2.4.3 can be built with readline support, so Maxima has advanced command-line editing facilities when built with it. GCL produces a fast Maxima exectuable.
Only the ANSI-enabled version of GCL works with Maxima, i.e., when GCL is built, it must be configured with the --enable-ansi flag, i.e., execute ``./configure --enable-ansi'' in the build directory before executing make.
Whether GCL is ANSI-enabled or not can be determined by inspecting the banner which is printed when GCL is executed; if ANSI-enabled, the banner should say "ANSI". Also, the special variable FEATURES should include the keyword :ANSI-CL.
There are GCL implementations for many platforms including MS Windows and Unix-like systems.
SBCL http://sbcl.sourceforge.net
SBCL is a fork of CMUCL which differs in some minor details, but most notably, it is simpler to rebuild SBCL than CMUCL.
rmaxima is recommended for use with SBCL. See CMUCL above.
There are SBCL implementations for Linux, several *BSD systems, Solaris, Mac OS X and MS Windows.
Allegro Common Lisp and OpenMCL
Maxima should work with Allegro Common Lisp and OpenMCL, but only limited testing has been done with these Lisp implementations. User feedback would be welcome.
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