Re: Binary distribution

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:24 PM, fork wrote:

> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh <at> octave.org> writes:
> 
>> Many other
>> free projects distribute binaries just this way, treating Windows and
>> Macintosh differently.
> 
> Right now I am trying to get all the dependencies for printing for the 3.4.2
> mingw binary (which are not included, for plenty of good reasons), and it is a
> royal pain (the lack of a built-in compiler, wacked file layout, etc, etc). 
> (OK, got ghostscript and ghostview, set the paths, now how do I get fig2dev 
> and
> pstoedit?...) Another plea for a self-contained binary, I guess.

I'm not sure if you're looking for help finding windows version of fig2dev and 
pstoedit, or are just venting ... but, just in case it is the former ...

fig2dev is part of xfig/transfig

        http://www.xfig.org/tools.html

pstoedit can be found at ...

        http://www.pstoedit.net/

I don't have any experience with the windows versions.

Ben

p.s. Have you tried installing Virtual box on you windows box? If not it is a 
nice way to run Linux on windows.