From maintainers-request at octave dot org Mon Jan  9 13:43:22 2006
Subject: Re: Successful compilation with MinGW
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail dot com>
Cc: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:43:13 -0500

On  9-Jan-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:

| would the following procedure work?
| 
| 1. get current octave & octave-forge precompiled cygwin packages and
| dependencies
| 2. get current cygwin1.dll and binary edit it to replace "Cygnus
| Solutions" as the registry key.
| 3. gather all other packages (gnuplot etc..) which could be the same
| as in your 2.1.42 package
| 4. slightly modify your NSIS script to account for any changes
| 5. produce a nice octave installer just like window users like. It
| will be self contained and will not affect any preinstalled cygwin

Yes, I think something like this would work.

I think it might be best to avoid installing multiple copies of Cygwin
unless you can find no other solution.  Why can't the Octave installer
check to see whether Cygwin is already installed, or just be a wrapper
around the Cygwin setup.exe?

jwe