Re: Windows Octave compilation

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/15/2014 01:14 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote
> > On 07/15/2014 12:08 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> > > Jan Tomášek wrote
> > > >
> > <snip>
> > > > I was able to build the unstable octave(4.1.0) on my mingw. But when I
> > > > try
> > > > to run it I have this error:
> > > > "The procedure entry point _ftelli64 could not be located in the dynamic
> > > > link library msvcrt.dll"
> > >
> > > Did you try to compile a 64-bit indexing Octave? (--enable-64 in the
> > > configure options ?)
> > >
> > > If yes I'm afraid you're a bit SOL, as building Windows binaries with
> > > 64-bit
> > > indexing hasn't been attempted by anyone yet.
> >
> > That's not correct.  I've done it, so it has been attempted and it is
> > possible.
>
> Thanks for setting this straight.
>
> Is 64-bit indexing possible right away with current mxe-octave?

It should be.  Have you tried configuring mxe-octave with --enable-64? 
You'll need to start fresh so that you build a 64-bit GCC and all 
dependencies are built with that compiler.

jwe