From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 12 08:01:01 2005
Subject: Re: Octave on Windows compiled with MinGW
From: Laurent Mazet <laurent dot mazet at motorola dot com>
To: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
Cc: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:00:39 +0100

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:18:54 +0100 (CET)
Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no> wrote:

> Hi, Laurent. 

Hi Ole,
 
> Happy New year. 
> 
> I am now setting up MinGW and downloading Octave-2.1.64. 
> 
> Here is what you did: 
> % Snip from
> http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2004/783 %
> 
> - I used ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared
> --disable-readline
> --enable-dl
> 
> - I added -lwsock32 which wasn't detected by ./configure
> 
> - In /usr/include/winnt.h, I disabled typedef union IMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL
> because of
> a name conflict with Array.
> 
> - For liboctinterp I added a $(DLD_PICOBJ) into the rule of
> src/Makefile
> 
> - In src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/sort.cc, I 'sed'  s/= octave_NaN/=
> lo_ieee_nan_value ()/
> 
> - I finish install by hand, copying some dlls into the binary
> directory.
> 
> % End of snip % 
> 
> What did you added in the rule $(DLD_PICOBJ) in the src/Makefile? 

I'm sorry but I didn't kept the source on my hard-disk. If I remember correctly 

liboctinterp.$(SHLEXT): $(PICOBJ) $(DLD_PICOBJ) $(PIC_XERBLA)
        rm -f $ at 
        $(SH_LD) $(SH_LDFLAGS) $(SONAME_FLAGS) -o $ at  $^ $(OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS)

> How does Octave work? Is it fast enough? Did you compiled with with
> gcc-3.2.x as well?

Well... I managed to start octave and run some tests/benchmarks. I spend all my
results on an octave mailing-list few months ago. But, frankly, without
readline nor kpathsearch nor fork, it wasn't really usefull.

I compiled it with the laster MinGW release i.e. gcc-3.2.x

> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Ole J. 


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