Fwd: GSoC 2013

[Anirudha Bose]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

The problem is that at the distributing binaries for Octave and its
Octave-Forge packages for anything other than a GNU system is
annoyingly difficult. You're free to suggest any solution you can
think of, but the currnet solution underway is to cross-compile from
GNU into other systems. There are two programs that can help with
this, one of which is MXE and the other is GUB. MXE is only for
Windows, but the solution for it is already more or less complete: it
is now possible to cross-compile Octave from scratch into Windows with
MXE. GUB also targets Mac OS X and pretty much anything for which gcc
can compile to, but it needs a lot of updating. If you want to work on
GUB, you will need to hack both its Python and a few things about its
Makefiles.

Could you please detail me about the challenges I can face while using GUB so that I can write my application accordingly? What kind of Python hacking is involved if I want to work on GUB?

You should only undertake this project if you have a solid
understanding of software build system, cross-compilation (or can
suggest an alternative), and software distribution. You should also
ideally have access to several operating systems on which you can test
your results.

I am familiar with building packages and compilation of sources. So I want to do this project. Currently I am trying to understand how to use MXE and GUB. And now I don't have any problems accessing Mac OS X.

- Jordi G. H.

- Anirudha Bose