Re: Windows testing

[Philip Nienhuis]

rezahousseini wrote
> 
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Daniel J Sebald
> <daniel.sebald@>wrote:
> 
>> On 09/04/2012 03:47 AM, Jonas Åberg wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any place for getting a compiled for windows version for
>>> testing?
>>>
>>> I would like to test the new Octave GUI version but I I can’t find a
>>> site where this is discussed.
>>>
>>> Am I too early? When should I look back?
>>>
>>
>> Unless you are able to build on Windows, probably too early.  If you are
>> able to build and want to help out as a tester, let us know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
>>
> I did a build on windows over cygwin. Documentation building was not
> working, so I disabled it but then run trough fine. A big problem I
> detected with the gui where the missing icons, is  this a bug or just some
> missing includes? Another problem was the hangup after a while, without
> interacting with the gui. But I didn't tested this out further.
> 
> 

Same results as here:

https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-August/029811.html
+ following post.

Did you encounter the other issues I reported as well?

I think the GUI is simply not yet ready for Windows. While investigating the
"QObject::startTimer: timers cannot be started from another thread" issue I
compared the terminal code for *nix and Windows and found that they are
quite different implementations.

BTW the GUI has several issues on Linux as well. Alas, I've got little time
now for finding a reproducible case for bug reports etc. (A 3+ hour MinGW
build doesn't need much attention once started, contrary to bug hunting.)

Philip



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