Re: Patch for REAME.MSVC (compilation of libf2c)

[Michael Goffioul]

Abdelrazak Younes a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am a long time user of Octave and this new MSVC support caught my 
> interest. I saw that you changed the Autotools to support MSVC and 
> NMake basically, is that right?

Not exactly. I provided wrappers for MSVC build tools (cl and link) such 
that they
behave like gcc and ld. Based on a shell like MSYS, you are then able to 
re-use the
complete build system of Octave, while you're actually compiling with MSVC.

> May I suggest that you consider using CMake or Scons instead? Within 
> the LyX project we use all three building systems with success. I 
> might add that the MSVC builds are much faster than the mingw builds.

I'm not a CMake user, so I can't compare. However, octave build system 
relies on
various shell scripts. Switching to CMake would somehow require to port 
those scripts
to CMake. Is this easily feasible?

Michael.