Re: MinGW build error 'setenv' was not declared in this scope'

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 09/17/2012 05:27 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Philip Nienhuis
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     (MinGW, gcc 4.5.2)
>
>     ../../octave/libgui/src/octave-gui.cc: In function 'int
>     octave_start_gui(int, char**)':
>     ../../octave/libgui/src/octave-gui.cc:85:29: error: 'setenv' was not
>     declared in this scope
>     make[3]: *** [src/src_libgui_src_la-octave-gui.lo] Error 1
>     make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/libgui'
>     make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>     make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/libgui'
>     make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7'
>     make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>     FWIW, some googling turned up that MinGW (nor MSVC) doesn't have
>     "setenv".
>     It seems "putenv" is advised.
>
>     Suggestions on how to get past this error?
>
>
> I suppose the GUI code should use octave_env::putenv() instead.

Does that work on your system?  If so, submit a patch to the tracker and 
I'll try it here on a linux system.

Dan