RE: mxe-octave windows installer

[John D]

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:07:05 -0800 (PST)
From: fgnievinski <address@hidden>
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Subject: RE: mxe-octave windows installer
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John Donoghue-2 wrote
> From: Michael Goffioul [mailto:

> michael.goffioul@

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> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:15 AM
> To: John D
> Cc: Octave Maintainers List
> Subject: Re: mxe-octave windows installer
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> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, John D &lt;

> john.david.donoghue@

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> Is anyone looking at merging in the work of Anirudha Bose into 
> mxe-octave, or is there some other plan?
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> If no one is yet doing anything, I cant do much with the OS X parts 
> but could take a look at the windows installer part at least and 
> import in relevant change sets, unless there is a better way of doing it.
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>  There's no current plain to do the integration. I won't have time in 
> the coming days/weeks to have a look at it, so if you're willing to 
> look at the Windows-related bits, that would be great.
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> I had hoped that Anirudha would prepare the integration, but 
> unfortunately it looks more like he vanished.
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> Michael.
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> I have pulled in some of Anirudha's installer changesets, and added a 
> few other changes to the installer if anyone wants to give it  try.
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> After building octave via make, running ./mk-inst -installer should 
> create the installer which will install all the files that were 
> installed by mxe-octave, the shortcuts for octave and documentation.
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> I cross built on my Fedora 19 box without issues. Hopefully it works 
> ok with other cross build systems.
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> I haven't pulled in all of Anirudha's java changesets yet, and haven't 
> had java activated in the build, although I do have java on my windows 
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> I also have not imported additional octave package changesets as of yet.

I'd like to give it a try, please -- would it be okay for your changes to be
submitted?
Also, if you could point me to what is left to be done towards having a
Windows installer.
I'd like to help, within my limited C skills.
Thanks,
-Felipe.


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I pushed the changes I have done to mxe-octave already.
For Windows, I don't know if anyone other than myself has tried to
build/install using the changes I have made.

In addition I believe pending is still:
- installing whatever requirements are needed for printing
- creating installers for packages? Or will it be a monolithic install with
most packages in it, or assume users will use the pkg commands ?