Re: [mxe-octave] question for windows cross build

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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> From: JohnD 
> To: 'Tatsuro MATSUOKA' ; octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/8/31, Wed 01:33
> Subject: Re: [mxe-octave] question for windows cross build
> 
>> 
>>  Message: 5
>>  Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:42:41 +0900 (JST)
>>  From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>
>>  To: "address@hidden" 
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>>  Subject: [mxe-octave] question for windows cross build
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>>  In the bug tracker?
>>  http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48474
>> 
>>  mxe-octave: enable better supported gnuplot terminals
>> 
>> 
>>  I have been trying to build gnuplot with cairo based (pngcairo ...) and
> lua/tikz
>>  terminals.
>>  Build for cairo based terminal seems to have no problem so far.
>> 
>>  For implementing lua terminal, I need to use lua executable.
>>  The mxe-octave for windows is cross build so that lua.exe cannot be used.
>> 
>>  However, in octave build qt tools uic, moc, rcc and lrelease are required.
>>  But linux native of those are not built in mxe-octave cross.
>> 
>>  Am I misled?
>> 
>>  Tatsuro
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Mxe-octave creates host (runs in linux versions) of (i686-w64-mingw-)qmake,
> uic etc in the usr/bin directory and names as  and then later on makes the
> target (.exe) versions for running in windows 
Thanks for your explanation. 
I will try to build linux lua and windows lua for mxe  cross build for windows..


> On a side note, I started looking at getting qt5 to work as well , and has
> gotten close but not completed yet

Upgrading to qt5 is a good news!


Tarsuro