First version of MinGW octave

[David Bateman]

Ok I've placed a version of MinGW octave + octave-forge + all 
dependencies on my personal website at

http://www.dbateman.org/page=octave

The file is about 107MB zipped. Note that this is the CVS of both octave 
and octave-forge as of about 4 hours ago, so be warned this is about as 
bleeding edge as it gets. This version is primarily aimed at developers 
and so expect a rough time.

To install this just unzip everything under c:\octave. If you unzip it 
elsewhere you'll need to edit the %OCTAVE_ROOT%/msys/etc/fstab file to 
reflect the new location.Unzipped the install is 346MB (I was 
pessimistic when I said 550MB). Octave can then be run using 
c:\octave\octave.bat, which fixes the paths for both octave and the 
external programs that octave depends on to be correct.

Things that I know are issues and where help would be appreciated are

1) Don't use the X in the upper right of the DOS command.exe as this 
crashes octave.
2) Need to figure out why octave is complaining about a missing 
libgmp-3.dll for the symbolic toolbox. Help would be appreciated on this 
one.
3) ATLAS as I can't build it under VMWARE. I'm investigating using a 
prebuilt P4SSE2 release from teh Python people, and so hope to resolve 
this one rapidly.
4) Need to identify which files can and should be removed. The gnuwin32 
stuff should be easy to handle for this. The stuff built from source 
less so.
5) fix the failing octave-forge build issues other than symbolic which are
 - extra/graceplot/__grcmd__.cc due to missing sys/wait.h.
 - extra/pdb/creadpdb.cc due  missing mmap in mingw
 - main/miscellaneous/listen.cc due to non posix network stuff
6) There are several posix specific functions of octave such as fork 
that I don't think will ever be available in a mingw version of octave
7) mv %OCTAVE_ROOT%/MinGW to %OCTAVE_ROOT%/msys/mingw, remove the 
/etc/fstab file and fix up the octave.bat file to reflect this. This 
will make packaging easier.
8) Get real releases of UFsparse and octave rather than the pre-release 
or CVS versions used here.
9) Deal with the NSIS packaging

Note that I've placed the minimum source (i.e. Things you can't get 
elsewhere) in this package, with the rest recovered by wget by the build 
script. When things settle down I'll make available a package with the 
full sources as required by the GPL, but I don't imagine that that many 
people will download it :-). I'll then supply a version without any 
source code to make the download smaller.

Feedback welcome....

Regards
David

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