Re: Octave/Windows compiled with VS2008 available

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:27 AM, bernddude <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Michael, do you think it would be possible to share your MSVS project
> file as well
> i m trying to use some parts of Octave in my applications but am really
> struggling to get the
> precompiled dll's working with my MSVS (2008 Prof) to work.
>
> thus i was wondering if i just recompile local the whole system i might be
> able to overcome
> this problem more easily ?

I'm not using MSVS project files. What I use instead is a set of tools an
scripts that provides me a development environment similar to UNIX, but
using MSVC as compiler. This allows me to use the regular configure
scripts and Makefile's of octave. To run these scripts, I use the MSYS
shell. I also develop a libtool translation script that allows me to use
libtool-based build system (which is used in a wide range of software).

The tools are distributed with the binary packages of octave:
cc-msvc => gcc
fc-msvc => g77
ar-msvc => ar
ranlib-msvc => ranlib

The complete build setup is available on octave-forge under SVN
(trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/msvc). The entry point is the
script run_compilation.sh.

Note that octave has a bunch of dependencies that you would have to
recompile in order to compile Octave. This is maybe not what you want
to do. If you could tell me more about the actual problem you have,
maybe I could help you.

Bye,
Michael.