From help-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 16 11:36:42 2004
Subject: Re: Packaging Octave for Windows and OS X (was: writing integer with fwrite)
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast dot net>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:38:09 +0100


On Dec 14, 2004, at 21:19, Joe Koski wrote:

>
> on 12/14/04 11:56 AM, John W. Eaton at jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu wrote:
>
>> On 14-Dec-2004, Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast dot net> wrote:
>>
>> | Another personal opinion. Since Linux and OS X share gcc, gnu make, 
>> and
>> | (more recently) the bash shell, creating a make file that would 
>> work for
>> | both sytems should not be that difficult. Admittedly, Apple doesn't 
>> help by
>> | constantly tweaking gcc and OS X to get ready for 64 bit computing 
>> (Tiger).
>>
>> Don't most systems that use Autoconf configure scripts come close to
>> this already?

WRT to the current state of octave on OS X, I'd say that the *only* 
real issue left is the lack of a standard Fortran compiler for Mac OS 
X. I'm using XLF for all my builds, gave up hoping for Apple to deliver 
g77 with XCode a long time ago.

Octave's makefiles *will* work on OS X, given that you have a properly 
working fortran compiler.
Even though I'm pretty quiet these days (very little time to spare) I 
regularly compile the CVS version of octave + octave-forge to make sure 
nothing is broken on Mac OS X.

>>
>> | The common Linux/OS X make file approach for the "you probably want 
>> this
>> | one" versions of octave and octave-forge on sourceforge would be my 
>> vote for
>> | a "Mac friendly" installer of octave.

Here's what I do:
./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-dl --with-f77=xlf
make FFLAGS=-qextname

If you don't have readline add --disable-readline (readline 5 is just a 
matter of configure, make, make install).

Last time I built with g77 I needed to use
./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-dl
make FLIBS=-lg2c

octave-forge 2004-11-16 is the proper version of octave-forge for 
octave 2.1.64.
Simply configure & make will work.

HTH,
Per



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