Re: MinGW build of octave

[David Bateman]

> Forgive me for being a nOOb, buy why are you working so hard to get cygwin
> going under mingw?  It can't be the sjlj-speed-issue since rebuilding
> cygwin's gcc is easier.  I am sure I am missing something.


MinGW stands for "minimalist Cygwin", and builds binaries that don't 
depend on cygwin.dll or in fact any external dlls except those you 
specify yourself. So I'm not building cygwin under mingw, but rather a 
Windows native version of octave. The cygwin version is most certainly 
not native as it depends on symbolic links, its own libraries, etc not 
normally available in Windows. So ultimately MinGW is a much better way 
to go than cygwin as it contains less cruft.

I also think you are mistaken on the amount of effort to rebuild cygwin 
gcc, since you not only have to rebuild cygwin gcc but all of the other 
libraries that octave depends on (cygwin.dll included). In fact you 
probably should rebuild everything in your cygwin install to avoid dll 
hell, with two versions of important libraries... Sorry, if MinGW is 
ultimately the better way to go I prefer to avoid that nightmare, and as 
an upside also avoid the sjlj slow-ups of cygwin builds with gcc 3.3 and 3.4

Cheers
David

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