Re: [O] Maxima code blocks does not work in windows revisited

[Mati <mati@electrum-bikes.pl>]

>> I am testing maxima-mode now (not in org) and it works, but is broken
>> on windows. Looks like there are many more problems with syntax.
> I am interested to know what is broken in maxima-mode. Please
> explain with examples.
>
> Best,
> Leo

There is problem with handling ghostscript. Ghostscript gui opens three 
times, one time with commands help, and error is displayed in 
minibuffer: "Your version Ghostscript does not appear to support the 
image type -sDEVICE=png16m. The command "gs -h" lists the available 
devices." when it does support it. maybe if I could use setup file it 
would work, but it gives error: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil. I 
also had to correct miktex path in this function, but without 
modification this error occurs too

Overall, configuration on windows is a pain. manually installing 
packages in miktex and ghostscript (not that bad, but I had to dig to 
find that's neccesary), wondering what code actually should be put in 
init.el, finding and moving files from maxima installation to site-lisp, 
adding installation pathes to path environment variable because 
setup-imaxima-imath.el is not working...

Plots produce output but it's not inline in emacs buffer, but gnuplot 
window.

My current path to miktex binary is: 
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64

My init.el config for maxima:

> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/maxima/")
>
> (load-file "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/maxima/setup-imaxima-imath.el")
>
> (use-package maxima
>   :custom (maxima-display-maxima-buffer nil)
>   :mode ("\\.ma[cx]" . imaxima)
>   :interpreter ("maxima" . imaxima))
>
> ;;(autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Maxima mode" t)
> (autoload 'imaxima "imaxima" "Frontend for maxima with Image support" t)
> ;;(autoload 'maxima "maxima" "Maxima interaction" t)
> (autoload 'imath-mode "imath" "Imath mode for math formula input" t)
> ;;(setq imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag t)
> ;;(setq imaxima-gs-program "gswin64")
> (setq imaxima-fnt-size "large")
> (setq imaxima-pt-size 12)
> ;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ma[cx]" . maxima-mode))
>
> (org-babel-do-load-languages
>  'org-babel-load-languages
>  '((maxima . t))) ; this line activates maxima
>