Re: First version of MinGW octave

[Bill Denney]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, David Bateman wrote:

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

Thank you very much for creating this.

> 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

One more minor bug:

When the pager is used and you press q to quit without showing to the end 
of the display, the line saying
-- less -- (f)orward, (b)ack, (q)uit
is left on the screen and the prompt is placed immediately to the right of 
that.

Bill

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