From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jan 13 21:55:33 2004
Subject: Re: Mkoctfile, need dynamic linking even for compiling a .cc file?
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
Cc: Octave_post <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:52:23 -0500

Is this possibly because you don't have write permission
for the directory you are in [/doc/octave/examples]?  The
C example works because you are in one of your own
directories [~/cando].

Copy the oregonator.cc example somewhere in your
local path and try again.

Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at users dot sf dot net

On Jan 13, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> To *use* an .oct file, I must have an Octave version which supports 
> dynamic
> linkng, which I don't have yet. Presumably it also means that I cannot 
> even
> *compile* a .cc source file (to make my .oct executable file) for 
> practice
> purposes? In contrast I can compile and run my own hello.c.
> Henry
>
>
> [~] tcsh:17> cd ../../sw/share/doc/octave/examples
> [doc/octave/examples] tcsh:18> ls
> Makefile                  info-emacs-info           oregonator.cc
> Makefile.in               info-emacs-octave-help    oregonator.m
> hello.cc                  make_int.cc
>
> [doc/octave/examples] tcsh:19> mkoctfile oregonator.cc
> /var/tmp//cc5GNwcZ.s:unknown:FATAL:can't create output file: 
> oregonator.o
>
> [doc/octave/examples] tcsh:31> mkoctfile hello.cc
> /var/tmp//cc9Bo7wZ.s:unknown:FATAL:can't create output file: hello.o
>
> [~/cando] tcsh:36> gcc hello.c
> hello.c: In function `main':
> hello.c:3: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
> [~/cando] tcsh:37> a.out
> Hello, World!
> [~/cando] tcsh:38> cat hello.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> void main()
> {
>         printf("Hello, World!\n");
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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