http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20986
--- Comment #38 from Robert Dodier robert.dodier@gmail.com 2013-09-24 19:18:36 CDT --- While it may be silly for GCL to allocate memory as it does, we are pretty much stuck with it. Maxima for Windows is compiled with an archaic, brittle toolchain -- there are smart people trying to straighten out this situation but for the moment we are stuck with the old tools. It is possible that GCL has been updated to use some other allocation scheme -- I don't know. It is also possible to use some Lisp other than GCL to compile Maxima, but other Lisps have their own idiosyncrasies.
Help me understand the prospects for getting Maxima running via Wine. Is the allocation problem fixable? and if so, will an updated version of the patch fix it? or is it not fixable? Thank you for any information.