Re: testing octave-3.4.0-3 on cygwin snapshots

[Marco atzeri]

On 6/26/2011 11:20 AM, Nit Nit wrote:
> Hello Marko,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I have experimented a bit with the installed packages anf finally could
> get mkoctfile to run and build the simple oct demo exaple.
>
> This the sequence of my installs and what I have got in response:
>
> 1.
>
> installed:
>
> octave
> octave-devel
> octave-doc
> octave-forge
> gnuplot
> xinit
>
> Replaced cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20110606.dllOctave, and octave could
> run and plot in an x terminal
>
> Got in response to mkoctfile:
>
> gcc: command not found
>
> 2.
>
> Installed:
>
> gcc4-core
> gcc4-g++
>
> Got in response to mkoctfile:
>
> ld: cannot find -lfftw3
> ld: cannot find -lfftw3f
> ld: cannot find -lgfortranbegin
> ld: cannot find -lgfortran
>
> 3.
>
> Installed:
>
> gcc4-fortran
> libfftw3-develop
>
> and mkoctfile could run and buid the simple example.
>
> I assume that this the minimal set of packages to be installed so you
> may add these dependencies to the octave cygwin packages and/or update
> the instructions in http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
>
> Regards
> nitnit

Hi Nit,

I will add the libfftw3-devel to the next release,
but I will not add gcc and gfortran as dependency.
I you want to compile you need a compiler, that is a basic requirement.

Regards
Marco