From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jun 12 14:34:24 2003
Subject: Readme file for OS X
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:32:08 +0200

Hi,
maybe something like the following should be added to the octave 
sources as README.MacOSX?

/Per

--- Begin --------------------------

This document outlines the steps needed to compile octave for Mac OS X 
10.2.x.

Octave is also available as a package from Fink, 
http://fink.sourceforge.net
Please refer to the documentation, FAQ and mailing lists of the Fink 
project for details on how to install octave using Fink.


Install OCTAVE on Mac OS X 10.2.x from source
=============================================
1)  Make sure you have the following installed:
     December 2002 (or later) Devtools, a working Fortran compiler, 
readline, and texinfo or tetex.

2)  Get octave-2.1.4x.tar.gz from http://www.octave.org/download.html
     (version 2.1.40 and onwards should work)

3)  Unpack the tarball and run './configure' _without_ arguments unless 
you know exactly what you are doing

4)  Edit config.h so that the line:

     /* #undef HAVE_DYLD_API */

     instead reads:

     #define HAVE_DYLD_API 1

5)  Run 'make' followed by 'sudo make install'

6)  Test dynamic loading by running 'mkoctfile hello.cc' in octave's 
examples directory.
     You should get a file hello.oct that can be run in octave.

ToDo
=============================================
The port to Mac OS X is by no means complete. In particular, it still 
lacks
* Shared library support

--- End --------------------------

------------
Per Persson
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications

www:   http://www.its.bth.se/staff/pee
e-mail: per dot persson at bth dot se