[Scilab-users] Maxima(Symbolic) Toolbox

[Lavitha Pereira]

Hi All,

I am trying to install 'Maxima' and facing issues. Has anyone installed it
on 'Scilab 5.2.2'(Ubuntu/any Linux OS)?. Is there any better toolbox than
Maxima available?.

I have installed the dependencies perl, overloading,maxima separately and
facing problem while integrating them.

Error below:

-->ilib_build('overload',table,files,[],'',ldflags,include,include,%f,'');
!--error 999
ilib_build: Wrong value for input argument #3: existing file(s) expected.
at line 46 of function ilib_build called by :
ilib_build('overload',table,files,[],'',ldflags,include,include,%f,'');
at line 31 of exec file called by :
exec builder_src.sce

[Tim Wescott]

Post by Lavitha Pereira
Hi All,
I am trying to install 'Maxima' and facing issues. Has anyone
installed it on 'Scilab 5.2.2'(Ubuntu/any Linux OS)?. Is there any
better toolbox than Maxima available?.
I have installed the dependencies perl, overloading,maxima separately
and facing problem while integrating them.
-->ilib_build('overload',table,files,[],'',ldflags,include,include,%
f,'');
!--error 999
ilib_build: Wrong value for input argument #3: existing file(s) expected.
ilib_build('overload',table,files,[],'',ldflags,include,include,%
f,'');
exec builder_src.sce

FWIW I use both Maxima (usually via WxMaxima) and Scilab fairly heavily.
I use them separately and have never felt a need to have them merged.
Generally my symbolic and my numerical calculations happen at
significantly different times in my workflow, so why try to bolt them
together?

I don't know if this applies to you, of course.

[Philippe Roux]

hi,

I use mainly scimax toolbox , they are 2 requirements :

1) you have to work on linux
2) you have to install the overload toolbox before scimax toolbox (install
it from atoms from atoms)
http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/overload/

then you can install scimax with scilab 5.5.2, I have not installed scimax
from atoms but from git.forge.scilab
(https://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/scimax/source/tree/master/) .


With the last versions of scilab/maxima some maxima functions can't be
overloaded (like erf) so you have to modify some file created by build.sce
to run the load.sce of scimax (see work around in
https://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/scimax/issues/1560/ )

for me it works perfectly, IMHO symbolic expressions are easier to handle in
scilab (with scimax) than in wxmaxima, for examplescilab matrix of symbolic
expression is really simpler than maxima ones, or writing text files from
symbolic expression is so easy with scilab compared to maxima ! I should
write some tutorial about it ....

Philippe



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