Re: First version of MinGW octave

[Shai Ayal]

that's what I though and what prompted me to develop octplot under
cygwin. Also discussed previously on the list, it is possible to ship
a custom made cygwin1.dll with a prepackaged version of octave which
will make it independent of the other parts of cygwin, which window
users are reluctant to install. I don't see why though -- It is one of
the most harmless installs available for windows -- it all sits under
one directory and only touches ~2 registry entries. But, the people
want a self contained install package ...


Shai

On 2/15/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15-Feb-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | Can sockets and fork be implemented in mingw or do I have to write a
> | nigw specific version to handle this using windows calls?
>
> Umm, isn't that what Cygwin provides?  I don't see the point of
> reinvinting the "missing" parts of Cygwin for MinGW.
>
> jwe
>