[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8783] C++ implementation of textscan

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #82, patch #8783 (project octave):

JWE,
Thanks for those hints.

In return:
If you have Windows & Linux on the same PC and if you can somehow access your
Linux file system from the Windows side, it is even easier:
In windows you can just run octave-cli-4.1.0+.exe directly from the
./mxe-octave/dist/octave-<date>/bin subdir on the Linux file system.
>From an MSYS shell, if you add & export the mxe-octave/dist/octave-<date>/bin
subdir to the PATH, you can even run octave-gui.exe.
So one doesn't even need to install Octave on the Windows side.

I did this until a year ago but then it somehow didn't work anymore. But
triggered by your hints I just checked and for some other unknown-to-me reason
it works fine.

This is all by virtue of having a complete Octave installation tree
"installed" in mxe-octave/dist/
In the past I've modded the mxe-octave Makefile to omit the date/time postfix
in the dist/octave<date/time> subdir so I could have a batch file on the
Windows side set up PATHs etc more easily.

It still involves rebooting (for a multiboot system like I have), I suppose
that with virtualised Windows installations on the Linux host even more time
can be saved.

Anyway it would be even easier if we could just build Octave on Windows
natively again.


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