Re: Official 3.8.0 windows binary on sourceforge?

[John Donoghue]

On 02/24/2014 07:09 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:40:12 +0900 (JST)
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA<address@hidden>
> To:address@hidden, fork<address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Official 3.8.0 windows binary on sourceforge?
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> --- On Tue, 2014/2/25, fork<address@hidden>  wrote:
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> > >Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant <at> yahoo.co.jp> writes:
> > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > >Binary of octave 3.8.0 on windows is now prepared in voluntary
> > >contribution by Markus Bergholz.
> > > > >
> > > > >http://mxeoctave.osuv.de
> > >
> > >Definitely useful.? However... I am trying to compile sedumi mex files, and
> > >the install_sedumi -rebuild script errors out with various weird messages
> > >depending on whether 3.7.2+ or 3.8.1-rc3 (liboctinterp-2.dll not found,
> > >missing include or library directories, hardcoded paths that from Markus
> > >built into mkoctfile, etc -- too much for me to track down at the moment).
> > >
> > >The sedumi mex files compile great on FreeBSD, with a binary (pkg install)
> > >3.8.0.
> > >
> > >I don't think this issues are worthy of a bug report yet, but we/ I should
> > >keep our eyes out on how well the MinGW compiles MEX files.
> > >
> It seems that we cannot install packages on octave-3.8.1rc-3 downloaded 
> fromhttp://mxeoctave.osuv.de  at this moment.
>
> see
>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/cannot-install-packages-on-octave-3-8-1rc3-td4662113.html
>
> Please try 3.8.0-5 instead.
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
For some reason, native-gcc wont cross compile at all for me under 
Fedora 20 without changes.
For the above issue, I saw the -lgss_s issue yesterday - find libgcc_s.a 
in the installed distro and copy it to the lib folder.

On a different issue, I added a change to the installer to check for 
Windows 8 and add the -i --line-editing to the shortcuts, Since I dont 
have Windows 8, can someone who does give it a try.