Re: Missing DLLs (was: Issues & questions building Octave-3.4.2 MinGW)

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Nice work! Fine!

I have update OctaveForWindows wiki. 
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
1. Standalone ports
  1.2. Octave-3.4.2-mingw + octaveforge pkgs

If there are some corrections, please inform me.

Regards

Tatsuro 

--- On Sat, 2011/9/3, Nit Nit wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello Octave users and maintainers,
> I have uploaded my octave-3.4.2-mingw tree (based on Tatsuro's compilation) 
> so other windows users can try to use it and test it.
> This tree is based on a subset of Tatsuro's recent compilations.
> 
> I have used these on XP-sp3 and win7-x64 systems.
> It should be noted that my testing is limited and it is probable that some 
> dependencies libs or binaries are still missing.
> 
> There are two 7z archives:
> 
> a. Octave-3.4.2-mingw (without pkgs) - http://www.multiupload.com/Z067A1W77N 
> (see included readme)
> 
> This archive can be extracted to any subdir (with no space chars).
> octave.lnk should be modified to point to the actual binary and icon file.
> It includes libs, headers and binaries to support printing and basic 
> mkoctfile.
> The environment vars are set via octaverc startup.
> Notepad++ can be installed as an external application and set as default 
> editor in octaverc (see included readme).
> 
> 
> b. Octaveforge pkgs, built for Octave-3.4.2-mingw  - 
> http://www.multiupload.com/6KICCHAPBJ (see included readme).
> 
> This archive should be extracted to the same tree as the first one and 'pkg 
> rebuild' should be run to adapt the pkgs db.
> I have built 72 out of the octaveforge current pkgs ('windows' and 'ad' are 
> not auto-loaded due to a bug which cause a crash when 'clear all' is 
> executed, probably SWIG related).
> The archive includes all the external dependencies required to install these 
> pkg's except for Java JDK which I have not included and should be downloaded 
> and installed.
> For e few pkgs I had to make make some minor teaks and changes in order to 
> install them under this environment. I will report these to octaveforge pkg 
> maintainers in separate posts.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 2011/8/21, Tatsuro MATSUOKAb wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > Thank you for your mail.
> > I will check your suggestion on Monday.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> > --- On Sat, 2011/8/20, nitnit  wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Tatsuro,
> > >
> > > Regarding your last change to octave-3.4.2.zip (2011-08-18), I am not sure
> > > this is really neadedL
> > >
> > > 1. Regarding libwmflite-7.dll - it was required for building oct files in
> > > prev. versions of your 3.4.2 builds but at least for me, it not required 
> > > any
> > > more by the recent builds (after copying libblas.dll.a, libfftw3.dll.a,
> > > libfftw3f.dll.a, liblapack.dll.a, libhdf5.dll.a from recent OctaveLibs.zip
> > > to lib subdir of my octave tree).
> 
> I have checked dependency of GraphicsMagick dll files.
> When I have updated Graphics Magick version from 1.3.7.to 1.3.12, libwmf is 
> not used.
> The GraphicsMagick dll files depends on libltdl-7.dll.
> Octave does not supports wmf file for 'imread' so that it is not problem the 
> GraphicsMagick prepared for octave for windows does not support wmf files.
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> 
> 
> > > 2. Regarding libltdl-7.dll - it is already bundled in the bin subdir in 
> > > your
> > > recent MinGW-TM.zip.
> Yes.  Why I place depedency dll files to octave bin directory is to make 
> octave can be executed by without downloading build stuff.
> 
> If you make the set of octave package which includes 'pkg install' stuff, 
> duplicated dll  files can be omitted.
> 
> 
> > > I have spent some time for reconstructing minimal installation tree for
> > > being able to build oct files and adding octaveforge packages (using only
> > > minimal subset of OctaveLibs.zip) from Tatsuro's builds and could build 
> > > more
> > > than 65 packages.
> > >
> > > Tatsuro, one issue may be taken care now is: sed.exe from bin subdir of
> > > recent octave-3.4.2.zip requires some missing dlls. Actually, this sed.exe
> > > can be removed from octave-3.4.2.zip since another version of sed.exe 
> > > which
> > > does not requires these dlls (probably statically linked) already provided
> > > by your recent msys-TM.zip ! I have noticed this when I tried to build
> > > octaveforge audio pkg and could successfully build it only after sed.exe
> > > from octave-3.4.2.zip has been removed.
> 
> I have misled. Sed is not required for usual octave execution.
> Msys sed may be required for octave-forge install  because 'pkg install' uses 
> Msys and MinGW.  I will remove bin/sed from octave-3.4.2.zip bin directory.
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
> 
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