From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan 29 22:57:19 2001 Subject: Re: Compiling liboctave on Win NT? From: Mumit Khan To: Markus Faust cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:57:08 -0600 (CST) On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 27-Jan-2001, Markus Faust wrote: > > | I would like to compile liboctave on a Windows NT machine and have > | difficulties with the make file. Can somebody indicate me the > | changes I have to make in the makefile or send me an example > | makefile? I want to use the library with DevC++4 and compile it with > | cygwin, which I hope will work. > > I don't know what DevC++4 is, but I believe that Octave should > configure and build with the cygwin tools. Been away, so missed the original post. Dev-C++ is an IDE based on the Mingw compiler, which uses Microsoft's runtime library, which means that it's missing all the POSIX bits that Octave heavily depends on. Getting Octave to build with Mingw, hence Dev-C++, will be very hard, without a reasonabe POSIX emulation library. Oh yeah, there's Cygwin just for that. Octave builds out of the box with Cygwin tools. See Cygwin home page at http://www.cygwin.com/ Regards, Mumit ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------