From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Nov 23 08:26:40 1998 Subject: Re: newbie questions From: "A. Scottedward Hodel" To: exbang at wanadoo dot fr, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu CC: Support Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:17:39 -0600 >Salutations all, [deleted] >2) Is there really *no* version of Octave for MacOS, my preferred platform ? One may run Octave under MachTen Unix, which allows simultaneous MacOS and Unix applications to run. MachTen is a commercial application, web location http://www.tenon.com. It unfortunately does not permit dynamic linking (shared library functions) in a standard Unix sense, and so (on this platform) you must directly incorporate any compiled functions into the Octave executable. See the file README.MachTen in the Octave distribution for compilation instructions. I haven't heard of any Octave experiences under, e.g., MkLinux. >3) I never installed Linux but this might be the occasion to do it. Has >anybody compiled Octave for some flavor of Linux running on Power Macs ? Or is >there a simple procedure (simple for a non-unixian I mean) to compile it ? Under Unix, the procedure is quite simple (usually): configure (.... options go here, see the README docs ...) make all make install The above instructions are modified slightly for MachTen. > >-- >Greetings, >Michel >......................................................................... > Michel Jullian Directeur General email exbang at wanadoo dot fr > Exbang Industries S.A. > Mas Chauvain route de Villeneuve tel +33(0) 499 529 878 > Maurin 34970 Lattes France fax +33(0) 499 529 879 >......................................................................... > A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect Eng, Auburn Univ,AL 36849-5201 On leave at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (256) 544-1426 http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte