I am using M1 mac, and it wasn’t showed up too. I am using the homebrew maxima which is installed /opt/homebrew/bin/maxima.
But i simply do the following from terminal,
$ cd /Applications/TeXmacs.app/Contents/MacOS/
$ ./TeXmacs
And it works:
There must be a bug, but i don’t know exact where.
Does url-resolve-in-path give you the same result if you start TeXmacs from the terminal?
I guess Maxima could rely on other programs being on the path, so that may be why it fails.
You could check by doing
(var-eval-system "maxima --list-avail")@slbtty I don’t really know how to thank you !!! opening texmacs with the command from the terminal everything works !!
Thanks so much everyone for the support!!!
In case anyone needs this, I have compiled successfully a native M1 version that just works with the Homebrew maxima. Please look Building Natively on M1 with macOS Monterey for instructions.
It helps me to install julia plugin in M1
This is a bit off topic but this issue has not been fixed yet. Probably we should have a settings that one can prepend some more PATHs to the system-provided PATH when TeXmacs start. On macOS we should even add /opt/homebrew/bin to PATH by default.
Not even TeXmacs, I think those apps started from spotlight search or clicking the icon are not aware of you “startup shell”.
I have the same issue after switching from manually downloading the latest stand-alone maxima version 5.43 to the actual latest maxima 5.46 MacPorts version.
Since switching to MacPorts, TeXmacs can not find maxima without opening from terminal. I guess that TeXmacs somehow does not execute the .zshrc file and therefore does not get the correct PATH environment variable.
My maxima installation is located at: /opt/local/bin/maxima.
TeXmacs: 2.1.1
MacOS: 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
PS. I have re-installed TeXmacs and rebooted to no avail.
There are several suggestions around on how to set PATH on a Mac. Has anyone tried them?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/51677/how-to-set-path-for-finder-launched-applications
I tried launchctl setenv PATH $PATH from my .zshrc file. But I don’t see how that could work since I want my PATH to be updated when opening TeXmacs from the Dock/Applications. ~/.launchd.conf also didn’t work. Probably due to the same issue.
I tried to set Login Items to my .zshrc file but that didn’t work. I moved my wxMaxima app out of the MacPorts folder in /Applications to be in /Applications. TeXmacs didn’t find it, though it finds:
Since I can not update the PATH for TeXmacs. I decided to put Maxima in the PATH for TeXmacs (/usr/local/bin).
sudo ln -s $(which maxima) /usr/local/bin/maxima
Now it works!
In the future it would be nice if TeXmacs added /opt/local/bin to the PATH since that is where MacPorts installs maxima.
I wanted to link to the MacPorts installation file to show where that is set but I can’t find which line. I’m new to MacPorts, so don’t know if installation folders are configurable.
PS. The oneliner terminal script above, creates a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin/maxima that points to your maxima installation. TeXmacs looks in /usr/local/bin, so it will find maxima when there is a link to maxima there.
It’s not exactly TeXmacs’ job to set up the environment. If it would do that, the next thing people will be complaining is it doesn’t respect their PATH variable.
The very reason for an environment variable is to pass information from the environment to a program. There’s no point in messing with it. Frankly, it’s surprising how messed up such a very important feature seems to be on Mac.
IMHO, a much better option would be to implement user overrides, along the lines of “if the user has defined a variable maxima-path and if that file exists, use it. Otherwise check the path”.
Ever tried to modify /etc/launchd.conf as suggested here:
https://www.bounga.org/tips/2020/04/07/instructs-mac-os-gui-apps-about-path-environment-variable/
Apps launched in Finder will not spawn any shell so modify the shell configuration scripts will have no effect. An ugly fix is to launch apps from a shell with correct environment variables (the process will inherit the environment of the shell), but this is not a permanent fix.
Actually it seems this is not supported on earlier systems. The “new way” is described here; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/setting-environment-variables-via-launchd-conf-no-longer-works-in-os-x-yosemite and goes via the file ~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.plist . Probably is better to check the manual pages of your version of MacOS. For example looking at launchctl man page there is the following command
setenv key value
Specify an environment variable to be set on all future processes launched by launchd in the caller's context.
which can be useful.
Another hint: Autodesk suggest the following method: https://help.autodesk.com/view/SGSUB/ENU/?guid=SG_RV_rv_knowledge_base_rv_setting_global_variables_osx_html which uses a service to run launchclt and set up the environment variables. Seems convoluted but makes sense and probably should also work.
It seems apple do not want to make easy to modify the environment of running applications. This indeed could have security concerns. I guess the proper way to support multiple paths is to allow the user to set up an optional TeXmacs preference to override the standard search path mechanisms in plugins. This makes sense and would not be difficult to do.
The key here is that you should NOT modify the global PATH as some programs may rely on the BSD utilities’ behavior. A TeXmacs preference is the way to go, as @mgubi said.
I’m looking at the plugin right now and it will search also into the path TeXmacs.app/Contents/Resources/maxima/bin. So I guess a rapid solution is to symlink that directory to the directory where the executable can be found. Of course as soon as one reinstall TeXmacs this change will be lost, but in the meanwhile should work.
OK, so for everyone who has maxima installed, a work-around is the following steps:
maxima is correctly installed on your system by typing which maxima - must print a path to maxima.(getenv "PATH") to see which paths TeXmacs will examine for maxima./usr/local/bin).sudo ln -s $(which maxima) [the path you chose]/maxima
where [the path you chose] is the path you chose from step 6.
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