Re: coudn't find dbleDET.h

[Martin Helm]

Am Sonntag, 17. April 2011, 16:59:56 schrieb yanyajie:
> ?Hi all,
> 
> A project I am compiling requires octave/dbleDET.h to be included. However,
> I didn’t find this header anywhere in the Octave include dir. . I am using
> octave 3.2.4, and the project was built upon 2.1. Could this be the
> reason? Does 3.2.4 deprecate this header and have all the functionality
> defined in it undergone some transformations? How can I cope with this
> situation? Will it work that someone just send me the header and I add it
> to the include dir? Or do I need to port the whole project to 3.2.4?
> 
I acnnot comment about the first part of this question. But you will need to 
port the project to 3.2.4, there is no guaranteed compatibility between the 
old versions 2.x and the newer octave versions for your c++ code.

> What's more, I find some headers of Octave, for instance lo-mappers.h, use
> functions like std::isfinite(), std::isnan(), which are not available in
> MSVC, and VC compiler keeps complaining about this. Why does octave have
> such problem? Isn't Octave a cross-platform project? Shouldn't it resolve
> platform dependency?
> 
Using MSVC is a problem here. The windows version of octave is compiled with 
mingw, it also ships the mingw compiler as part of the windows installation. 
So you definitely should use that compiler.
Your other option is to compile octave yourself completely from source with 
MSVC (I have never done that), as far as I know this will be a major pain.