http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34586
--- Comment #2 from Robert Dodier robert.dodier@gmail.com 2013-09-24 16:22:04 CDT --- A) cd to directory where lives maxima.exe -- same behavior. B) re: upgrade -- same behavior with Wine 1.7.2 as 1.4.
Re: whether maxima.exe is supposed to work by itself -- yes, it is. It is referred to as "command line Maxima". XMaxima and wxMaxima are graphical front ends to that same program. I find that I can launch wxmaxima.exe successfully, although attempting to enter, for example, "1+1;" triggers an error message about not being connected to Maxima. xmaxima.exe doesn't launch successfully -- something happens, but it's not the usual XMaxima display.