Install the software

In order to take advantage of the full power of imaxima you need several things.

MiKTEX 2.7

(pronounced ``MICK - teck'') is an up-to-date implementation of TEX and related programs for Windows$\circledR$. Its official web site is www.miktex.org. You can go to http://www.miktex.org/2.7/Setup.aspx and click the Download button of the Basic MiKTeX 2.7 Installer on that page. You may save the .exe file anywhere, such as the Desktop. Start the installation with a double-click. You need to install it in the default place.

GPL Ghostscript 8.63

The main page for Ghostscript is http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/. To download the latest Ghostscript 8.64 compiled for Windows$\circledR$, you go to

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/GPL/gpl864.htm.

In the middle of the page there there is a link to the file you need. Choose gs864w32.exe (or the latest release; if you have a 64-bit system then you will need gs864w64.exe, and if you do not know what I am talking about then you probably do not need the 64-bit version). You can double click the downloaded gs864w32.exe file to start the installation. You need to install it in the default place.

Maxima

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/, and scroll down to the Maxima-Windows section. Choose maxima-5.19.2.exe (or the latest release) for the download of a Windows$\circledR$ pre-compiled binary installer. Double click the downloaded maxima-5.19.2.exe file to start installation. You need to install it in the default place.

Emacs

is a very powerful text editor. The very official precompiled release can be obained from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/. However, the distributed precompiled binary does NOT support image features, hence it is not good enough for imaxima, by default. Thanks to Vincent Goulet, however, you can obtain a precompiled binary installer which has everything you need to use imaxima. Go to the web page http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/windowsand choose emacs-23.1-modified-3.exe for download. Just follow the instructions and install it in the default place.