From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Nov 30 22:49:29 2001 Subject: Re: mkoctfile on an AIX platform? From: "A. Danial" To: Steven R Goncalo Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:48:13 -0800 On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:50:11PM +0000, Steven R Goncalo wrote: > I am trying to port Octave to an IBM machine running AIX 4.3 . > I can get the program to compile and link as a static image, > but I can't get it to build using shared object files. I have several > functions I want to add as a .oct file, and mkoctfile requires the > shared object version. [...] > Has anyone succeeded in building a dynamic linked version of > Octave on AIX and/or used the mkoctfile command on that > platform? As far as I can tell, AIX + mkoctfile = headache. Like you I tried several versions of gcc, ld, and played with the octave makefiles to try to get this to work, all in vain. I posted a request to this list in May 2001 (http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2001/622) but no one seems to have a fix. I was desparate enough to resort to rebuilding octave with my functions statically built in. Here are the steps I followed to do that: http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2001/723 I'm all ears if you figure out how to get mkoctfile to work on AIX. -- Al ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------