Re: Result: Octave-UPM on Windows :-(

[Pedro]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Pedro <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Israel Herraiz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Jacob Dawid's message of Sat Nov 10 11:33:04 +0100 2012:
>>> What's the problem with compiling GNU Octave with MinGW? I know lots of
>>> people and there are prejudices against MinGW, but I could never find any
>>> arguments against MinGW except the usual blah that you hear from VS
>>> fanboys..
>>
>> I found some compilation errors using QTCreator + MinGW, that do not
>> appear with QTCreator + Visual Studio. That's all, it was easier to
>> compile using VS. No strong feelings about VS or MingW :).
>
> [perhaps going little offtopic]
> I don't know what's more "easy". Pay this M$ license (with recently
> heavy financial cuts in spanish public university as UPM), or spent
> the time to resolve it.
>
> I prefer better paid teachers than this kind of license.
>
> If the license is paid, the way is to resolve the dependence to not pay 
> anymore.
>
> And UPM is not alone.
> I think a lot of universities, are using octave in windows. So is a
> collective effort.

Now I remember that in a program called SuperCollider is used a
'cmake' that is a cross-platform make.

"CMake can generate makefiles for many platforms and IDEs including
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, MSVC, Cygwin, MinGW and Xcode."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake