From help-request at octave dot org Wed Aug 10 10:04:35 2005 Subject: RE: Installing Octave From: "Frank Palazzolo" To: Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:04:16 -0400 David, I did a mingw build back in January, and as I recall I had two types of problems. One was the readline problems you already cited. The other was that there were a few calls to fork(), which of course don't exist in mingw. A few of the fork() calls were internal, in liboctave\mkdir.c, rename.c, and rmdir.c, which I didn't quite understand. Then there was the fact that octave can be multithreaded through the use of fork. This would either need to be disabled to get a "single-threaded octave", or mapped to the native windows multithreading calls. Here is my old message, which isn't very informative... http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2005/msg00090.html Sounds like you've gotten further than I did...good luck! -Frank >Which is why I've been messing around with a MinGW build of octave for >the last few weeks, so that the cygwin speed issues might be addressed >with a Windows native version of octave. Then packaging it should be a >much easier problem (Albiet someone else's as I have no interest in >octave on Windows perse).... > >D. > >-- >David Bateman David dot Bateman at motorola dot com >Motorola Labs - Paris +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) >Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) >91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE > >The information contained in this communication has been classified as: > >[x] General Business Information >[ ] Motorola Internal Use Only >[ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------