It is possible to create an executable inside mathematica http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/CCompilerDriver/ref/CreateExecutable.html
this maybe helps with the process of building the plugin code. Instead of using a script, directly compile it inside mathematica. my 2c. max On 25 avr. 2012, at 13:08, Joris van der Hoeven wrote: > Dear Philippe, > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:32:05AM +0000, Philippe Joyez wrote: >> Sorry to disappoint you but I'm afraid that getting a working mathematica >> plugin >> "out of the box" for new users is not going to happen before the summer. >> However >> a user with some motivation and knowledge can make it to work. Let me explain >> why. >> >> What's broken is not Andrey's mathematica plugin code itself, it's the >> one-time >> script that runs the first time the user wants to connect to mathematica. >> That >> script *compiles* the plugin code, linking it to the actual mathlink library >> on >> the user's system and puts the resulting executable in the user's Texmacs >> directory. Since the time when Andrey wrote the script, there has been 3 >> major >> releases of Mathematica and the added support of MacOS and Windows in >> Texmacs, >> that all broke that installation script in various ways. >> >> Now, fixing the script so that texmacs would in all cases transparently >> connect >> to mathematica without any user intervention seems unlikely to happen for the >> simple reason that a compiler may not even be available on the user's >> machine. >> So manual installation of the (OS-dependent) toolchain would be necessary >> anyway. Furthermore the new script(s) would have to handle many OSes and many >> possible mathematica versions, which means someone should have access to all >> (OS-mathematica version) configurations... but who would that be? >> >> Presently I see no solution other than providing good how-tos on the >> compilation, or at best platform-specific scripts. What I posted last year in >> the users' list (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.texmacs.user/7409) >> is >> how to perform this one-time compilation in linux, which isn't really a big >> deal. In Albufeira, Miguel worked out the way to do this on MacOS for >> Bertrand. >> If I understood correctly, it was not as easy as in linux and that should >> probably be written into a howto as well. Then it would certainly be nice to >> centralize these instructions at some place (the famous wiki? a forum with a >> dedicated "plugins" section?) so that they could be maintained up-to date >> with >> user contributions for new setups, new versions, etc. > > What I propose is that those who are willing to work on the howto's > also try to fix the installation script at least in those cases when > they can make it work. > > I agree that this is not nice to program, since it might involve tests > on both the OS and the version of Mathematica. However, I think that > this is really how a novel user would expect things to behave. > > The real pain here is that Mathematica and Maple provide so called > 'Open' interfaces which we are not allowed to link in to our software. > So there is not much else that we can do than compile things on the fly. > > Best wishes, --Joris > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
