From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sun Jan  8 21:01:49 2006
Subject: Re: Successful compilation with MinGW
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: John Swensen <jswensen at intergate dot com>
cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:00:40 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, John Swensen wrote:

> This is a little off topic since you are talking about Octave without Cygwin, 
> but I have been working on an Octave GUI for the past year or so.  I only get 
> about an hour or two a week to work on it, but am slowly making progress.  It 
> requires Cygwin + Xwindows + various GTK packages from cygwin-ports (for 
> Windows), but also runs on OSX and Linux.  I have a rudimentary editor with 
> Octave syntax highlighting implemented with the GtkSourceView widget.  For 
> the gnome people out there, it is the same widget used for gedit.  My next 
> step is to integrate the source editor with the Octave debugging 
> underpinnings.  You can see a screenshot of the UI portion at
> http://swenmac.homeip.net:8080/OctaveUI.png
> The panels on the left are implemented with the widgets used in Gimp, such 
> that they can be tabbed together, detached completely, or docked in various 
> orders.
> I have a friend who is setting up a Subversion repository and Trac wiki for 
> me.  Once I have that done and a little more debugging, I will post a link to 
> the sources to the list.
>
> I do have one Octave under MingW question.  Is there any big advantage to 
> running Octave under MingW rather than just with Cygwin?

The UI looks pretty familiar.  I like it.

The reason to use MingW instead of cygwin is that you don't need to 
install the full cygwin packages (which has been mentioned as intimidating 
before).  You can just make a normal-looking windows installer for it, and 
it can run as any other windows program.

Bill

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