From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Feb 16 00:26:51 2004 Subject: binary packages From: "John W. Eaton" To: Paul Kienzle Cc: Octave_post Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:17:48 -0600 On 15-Feb-2004, Paul Kienzle wrote: | Windows 98, 2000, XP: | Two approaches here: one is a cygwin package approach, | the other a separately installed binary. My own preference | is for a separately installed binary which can optionally | install into an existing cygwin environment. For a separately installed binary package, the key feature is that it play nice with existing Cygwin installations. I would prefer to not see any more angry messages from people who blame Octave for screwing up their Cywgin installation... Since it is relatively simple to create Cygwin packages, I think that it would be useful to make them as well. I think I still have some scripts for doing this, so it should not be too much work for someone to pick up this task. | Unfortunately octave | requires --enable-shared on ./configure in order to get | octave-forge to work, so this process is not as easy as it | could be. I'm willing to change this default. Should we default to building both shared and static libraries? The downside is a default build time of about twice what we have now on systems where we have to compile everything with and without a PIC option. jwe ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------