Re: HOWTO for building octave using mingw/msys

[tinku99]

Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> 
> I started writing a small HOWTO on building octave for windows using
> mingw/msys and the toolchain available on the octave-forge svn repos.
> 
> https://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/HOWTO.txt
> 
> I'd like to improve it further, so feedback, comments, criticism,
> all is welcome.
> 

Thanks Benjamin. 
I modified your instructions a bit to just use the prebuilt dependencies,
and compile just octave itself. 
If the msys shipped with octave had all the tools that are setup with
install-msys-1.0.11.cmd, this process could be simplified even more.  
It seems to work, let me know if I am not anticipating any problems with
this... Thanks. I look forward to playing with octave. 

1. run the octave installer -> c:\Octave\3.2.2_gcc-4.3.0

2. using tortoise svn: 
c:\> svn co
https://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32
octbuild

3. install msys 
need bsdtar from here:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/bsdtar-2.7.900a_r1628-20091110-mingw32-alpha-bin.zip
 
and 
need wget from here: http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget 

c:\octbuild\msys> wget -N -i msys-url.txt
c:\octbuild> install-msys-1.0.11.cmd 
to
c:\msys\1.0.11
the msys provided with the installer is missing atleast autoconf 

4. specify the path we are using
modify c:\msys\1.0.11\etc\fstab
c:/Octave/3.2.2_gcc-4.3.0/mingw32                                     
/mingw

modify gcc43_common.sh 
PREFIX=/c/Octave/3.2.2_gcc-4.3.0

6. build
c:\> C:\msys\1.0.11\msys.bat --norxvt
/c/octbuild/octave> ./build-3.2.2-3.sh download unpack applypatch mkdirs
conf build install
have to specify each individually, because the target: "all" seems to be
missing 

7. modify c:\msys\1.0.11\etc\profile
export PATH=/c/Octave/3.2.2_gcc-4.3.0\bin:$PATH

8. try octave in place
/c/octbuild/octave/.build_mingw32_3.2.2-3_gcc-4.3.0-dw2>./run-octave

9. try mkoctfile
put the newly built octave on top of the installed octave
cp -r /c/Octave/octave/3.2.2-3/* /c/Octave
/home/test> mkoctfile helloworld.cc
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