Re: More on MinGW build

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

README.MinGW is not completed yet.
Benjamin Lindner will add the description to access the SVN repository to get 
useful script.

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/README-files-for-Windows-platforms-tp3168572p3236229.html

Regards

Tatsuro
--- J Luis wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I finally decided to give a try on building Octave on Windows and ...
> ai the thing is not easy.
> To start with I find the installation of Msys/MinGW a real mess.
> Instructions on Internet are completely outdated and now that things
> appear to be more stable (in past experiences there was always one
> autotool that didn't work well), it also misses several components.
> I had to find blas & lapack (my attempt to compile atlas crashed with
> an apparent conflict with the MS msvcrt.dll), readline and gperf. Next
> I encountered the mentioned
>  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32192
>  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32200
> 
> bugs, but were 32200 happened with file-io.cc, applied the patch and
> moved on to this one not reported previously
> 
> gl-render.cc: In member function 'virtual void
> opengl_renderer::text_to_pixels(const std::string&, uint8NDArray&,
> Matrix&, int, int, double)':
> gl-render.cc:3217:3: error: 'text_renderer' was not declared in this scope
> gl-render.cc: At global scope:
> gl-render.cc:3222:1: warning: unused parameter 'txt'
> 
> Note also that the README.MinGW file mention a Howto.txt file
> 
> http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/HOWTO.txt
> 
> that doesn't exist any more, so I had to proceed blindly. Until I
> stopped at the above error.
> 
> I would really love to be able to build Octave under windows and even
> much more if that could be done entirely with VS or Inter compiler.
> I'm part of the GMT team and we are aiming to have all GMT5 programs
> to run as mexs on both Matlab and Octave.
> I don't know if you guys know GMT (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/)
> but it gives a lot of the functionalities of the ML Mapping Toolbox
> (and MUCH faster). And with it, it comes the possibility to use
> another very popular library in the GIS comunity - GDAL. But to think
> that I will have to build all dependencies with the messy mingw is not
> really motivating for me.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Joaquim Luis
> 


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