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Re: mkoctfile under windows
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: mkoctfile under windows |
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Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:52:50 -0600 |
On 25-Feb-2004, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
| That should still be more convenient than downloading
| and installing cygwin, plus it guarantees a compatible devel
| environment for the installed octave binaries.
Why do you say that, when Cygwin can be installed with the simple
point-and-click setup.exe installer?
It should not be too hard to build an octave-dev Cygwin package that
depends on all the necessary tools. Then it seems to me that the
installation steps would be
download/run the cygwin setup.exe
choose to install the octave-dev package (causes all other necessary
packages to be selected for installation)
click next next next finish (or whatever)
Perhaps even these steps could be automated for a one-click solution
that would not require people to find the octave-dev package in a list.
But why not take advantage of the Cygwin package system?
jwe
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