From help-octave-request Fri Jan 15 05:43:21 1993 Subject: Octave installation on DOS? From: John Fletcher To: help-octave Date: 15 Jan 93 11:01:58 GMT I want to get Octave running under DOS. The possible environments are a) DJGPP port of GCC 2.2.2 b) EMX port of GCC (I am not sure which version of GCC) Problems 1) The Gnuplot Beta developers report problems with DJGPP because SUGNALS are not available for Floating point failures. 2) There is not a dos port of the equivalent Fortran compiler, so all the *.f programs would have to be run through f2c and then compiled a c or c++. Other thoughts. I have been using a DJGPP port of DLD, the GNU dynamic loader. This could be used with the C++ classes for numerical methods, so that only those in use are in memory. DLD 3-2-3 does support C++ member functions, but not constructors, but the name mangling has to be done by hand to call the routines once loaded. Any comments please John --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr John P. Fletcher Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Aston University, Tel: (44) 21 359 3611 ext 4625 Aston Triangle, Email(Most systems): J dot P dot FLETCHER at ASTON dot AC dot UK BIRMINGHAM B4 7ET U.K. Email(JANET only): J dot P dot FLETCHER at UK dot ASTON dot AC ---------------------------------------------------------------------