From help-request at octave dot org Wed Oct  5 05:07:50 2005
Subject: Re: fltk, oct files, and windows
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: antiskid56-octave at yahoo dot com
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 06:05:27 -0400


On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:18 AM, James R. Phillips wrote:

> --- "John W. Eaton"  wrote:
>
>> It might also be good if libstdc++ could be a shared library on Cygwin
>> systems.  Do you know why it is not?  Is this a FAQ?  If so, where is
>> the answer?
>>
>> jwe
>>
>
> According to Charles Wilson [1] it is just a difficult problem to 
> successfully
> build the C++ runtime library as a dll on cygwin, due to a variety of 
> factors.
>
> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00067.html
>

Have you tried octave-forge/admin/Windows/mkstdc++dll.sh?

It converts the static C++ library into a DLL.  It worked for me for my 
build of octave on Windows.

- Paul



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