Re: Windows Octave compilation

[Philip Nienhuis]

Please do NOT email contributors and developers privately. There are 
mailing lists for questions like these.

<octave-maintainers ML cc'd (I think you'll get answers there)>

Read on below:

Jan Tomášek wrote:
> Hello,
> as far as I know you are compiling octave for windows. I'm now trying to
> do so as well. I'm trying to build default branch for windows 7 using
> mingw to be precise.
>
> I'm trying the mxe version (was recommended to me as easy option).
> building like this:
> /mingw-get install autoconf bash msys-flex gcc gcc-c++ /
> /   gcc-fortran gettext msys-m4 msys-make msys-sed /
> /   libiconv msys-openssl msys-patch msys-perl msys-libarchive /
> /   msys-unzip msys-wget bsdcpio mingw-libgnurx msys-regex/
> /autoconf/
> /./configure --enable-system-gcc --enable-native-build
> /
> /source tools/set_mxe_env.sh
> /
> /make/
> /
> /
> It works (a bit), but I'm constantly facing huge number of errors
> (missing libs, missing dirs). I was always able to solve that, but it
> already took me about a week and I'm still not finish.
> Is there something I have done wrong? Is there a better approach to get
> octave working under windows ?

So you are trying to build natively (= under Windows)?

I'm cross-building on Linux, that is *way* easier and especially faster.
My last attempt to make a native build must be over 6-7 months or more 
ago and it failed, so I cannot help you. But there are people on this ML 
who have more experience with native mxe-octave builds.

Philip