Re: mkoctfile in Octave for Windows cannot find liboctave and other Octave-standard libraries

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Please execute

$ mkoctfile -p OCTLIBDIR

Does the result match to your install folder structure?

Regards

Tatsuro


--- On Fri, 2012/2/24, E. Joshua Rigler <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am attempting to compile mex files using the command-line mkoctfile
> from the MINGW32 version of Octave for Windows. I get the following
> errors:
> 
> $ mkoctfile.exe -mex fits_read_image.c
> -L/f/Octave4Windows/Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/lib -lcfitsio
> -I/f/Octave4Windows/Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/include/octave-3.4.3/octave
> -I/f/Octave4Windows/Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/include
> f:/octave4windows/octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
> cannot find -loctinterp
> f:/octave4windows/octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
> cannot find -loctave
> f:/octave4windows/octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
> cannot find -lcruft
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Note 1: I am doing this after calling msys.bat, and mounting the
> mingw32 directory as /mingw
> Note 2: manually specifying the path for the libcfitsio.a library
> seems to make ld.exe happy. It is what I would consider the Octave
> standard libraries (i.e., liboctinterp, liboctave, libcruft) that
> ld.exe cannot find when called from mkoctfile. What's worse, this
> mkoctfile.exe file is some kind of binary file, not a script like I am
> accustomed to, so I can't even read it to see what is happening.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated, or just confirmation that it is
> currently impossible to compile mex files in Octave for Windows so I
> can stop wasting my time.
> 
> -EJR
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