Re: Testing MXE-Octave

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 02/11/2013 05:14 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> > John W. Eaton wrote
> > > Yeah, there are lots of problems with the GUI. I don't think that these
> > > problems are specific to the MXE cross build.
> >
> > IIRC it worked OK with the 3.7.1 snapshot on Linux, so I suspect is *is*
> > related.
>
> I meant that I don't think that it is related to cross compiling. At
> least some of the problems are surely related to Windows.

OK, I'm sure you are right here :-)
After all, Windows is a bit alien to SW ported from *nix.

> > The UPM version (admittedly based on 3.6.2) doesn't have this issue.
> > On all
> > recent Linux builds I've made the workspace pane works good as well.
>
> UPM version?

The Windows version built by Isreal Herraiz, sorry.

Anyway, some further reporting:
The trick of yesterday (dropping in qhull-2009.1.tar.gz directly rather 
than through downloading by the build script) seemed to have worked OK.
But once on Windows, Octave (cli & gui) refuses to start with a message:

"This application has failed to start because libcholmod.dll was not 
found....".

I didn't see any mention of the cholmod, ccholmod, cholamd etc 
dependencies in the build anywhere (but I think that shouldn't do any 
harm, they are not required, are they?)
libcholmod doesn't have any relation with qhull, does it.

Philip