Re: Mingw32 compiled binaries

[Michael Goffioul]

On 6/6/07, Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have also used Michael's c++ code of mkoctfile and octave-config from
> forge (slightly modified) instead of the shell scripts.

Can you provide patches? It might be commited directly to CVS.

> What I have not yet tried is
> Octplot - simply not used yet
> gnuplot - here I used the win32 binaray available

This is compiled with mingw32 anyway, so just use it. I recompiled
gnuplot with MSVC to be able to share common DLL's (freetype, zlib,
libpng...).
OTOH, I also included a patch that makes gnuplot really work with
input/output pipes: this avoid the additional gnuplot window and also
solves a bug in gnuplot when octave is sending a lot of data to it.

> As micheal can probably tell, some problems arise in many small details,
> and I created work-arounds to succeed a build. My current results are
> not yet that professional to be immediately released, I did not expect
> such quick positive response :)

Can you make some benchmark comparison between your version and
the one I compiled with MSVC? You can install the MSVC-version with the
generic blas/lapack DLL's, which should more or less correspond to what
you have with mingw. I used to use the octave2 script from
http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html

Michael.