Support Wolfram Engine

[szhorvat]

It would be nice if this worked with http://wolfram.com/engine

Personally, I couldn't yet get it working with standard Mathematica either. The first problem was a space in the path (I have /Applications/Mathematica 12.0.app on OS X). Note that the Wolfram Engine installs to such a path by default on Mac. Once I removed the space, and provided the location as

python setup.py install --mma-exec /Applications/Mathematica12.0.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel

it just hangs, not sure way.

Back to the Wolfram Engine: note that the startup text is different than for Mathematica.

[Ludwiggle]

@szhorvat yes you could delete the startup text matching from the installation script and from the kernel too

[szhorvat]

I don't think that's why it hangs because I was trying to get it working with actual Mathematica ... Did you get it working on Mac with M12.0, or did you try Linux only?

[Ludwiggle]

I used it only with 11.3 on Linux. I am going to give it a try with the new Wolfram Engine (12) on Linux.
In the meantime you could have a look at the initialization script called wmath inside the kernel folder. That is supposed to run through wolframscript.

Update: setup.py does not work with Wolfram Engine 12 on Linux

[rljacobson]

I knew one of you would have beaten me to the punch with this question and its diagnosis. I just want to post a link-back to the SE question about this: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/199040/27662.

[mmatera]

Indeed, the current project would require some extra work to be "ironed" properly. Sadly, I can work on it just during my scarce extra time. Dr. Juan Mauricio Matera CONICET IFLP - Dto. de Física UNLP, Casilla de Correos 67 Calle 49 y 115 s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina Tel +54 221 4246062 (int 294) Fax +54 221 4236335 e-Mail: [email protected] homepage: http://www.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/Members/matera Skype: mauricio5831 El vie., 24 may. 2019 a las 13:53, Robert Jacobson (< [email protected]>) escribió:

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[rljacobson]

I completely understand, @mmatera. I am just grateful you have shared your code with the world. :)

[Ludwiggle]

If you are looking for something that just works give a try to https://github.com/Ludwiggle/JWLS
If your wolframscript works, JWLS works too, cause JWLS is a bash kernel that reads and writes to fifos; as such, it hardly fails.