Re: Octave GUI MinGW first light & need help.

[Sebastien Loisel]

Uh oh, this could get hairy.

On 2/15/06, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

Ok, here I have a problem. Firstly the install of QT4 stated that it
couldn't find MinGW when it was clearly there. Then I had to copy

I had a pre-existing QT4 installation against my pre-existing MinGW in c:\MinGW, but in principle it should be able to use the one in c:\MinGW\octave (I'm using MinGW 4.1.0 I think...)

mingw32-make.exe to make.exe, while msys' installer explicitly stated
that this is a bad idea. Finally I had to take msys' /bin/sh.exe. Then I

What you have to do is use Windows's cmd.exe and set the path

set PATH=c:\octave\MinGW\bin;%PATH%

That's what I have in compileenv.bat

still get an error as sh.exe is looking for the msys dll... What shell
did you use if not msys' one?

Don't use msys's shell for compiling for now.

These problems will be alleviated once I port octave-gui to autotools
from qmake. (The other choice being of porting octave from autotools to
qmake. Autotools wins.) If you can't get it working with the above
instructions, I guess I'll have to hurry up with my port. I'm back in
Linux now, for that purpose, so I can't doublecheck my MinGW.

Sebastien Loisel