From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 19 14:48:47 2005
Subject: Re: Building Octave on cygwin with gcc3.3.3
From: Paul Laub <tyrosine at gmail dot com>
To: Frank Palazzolo <frank dot palazzolo at mcm1 dot com>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:51:59 -0800

Frank, 

I'd build Octave for Cygwin / Windows using gcc 3.2, not 3.3. In my
experience, Octave 2.1.57 built from gcc 3.3 is about 8 times slower
in loops that Octave built from gcc 3.2.

For further discussion see these posts --
http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2004/msg02398.html
and
http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2004/2419

Paul Laub 


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:50:34 -0500, Frank Palazzolo
<frank dot palazzolo at mcm1 dot com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> To start, I am trying to build octave-2.1.64, using octave-forge from
> CVS and gcc 3.3.3.
> I used octave-forge/admin/Windows/Makefile with the default settings.
> 
> After a few tweaks, the octave part of the build succeeds.
> Unfortunately, when I run it, I get "Application Error" - The
> application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)"
> 
> Maybe this is because all of the windows-dev stuff was built with
> gcc3.2?  (Any idea if I'm on the right track?)  I guess I'll back up and
> try to build it from the standard octave instructions.
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> Frank
> 
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