Re: Octave on windows.

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-May-2005, Shai Ayal wrote:

| What I did was install cygwin using the cygwin setup application available 
| from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
| 
| In the package selection screen, Under development tools, take care you 
| choose to install gcc g++ g77 version 3.3.* and not 3.4.* -- these are 
| buggy in cygwin.
| 
| After installing, download the ocatve & octave-forge compressed archives 
| into you cygwin home dir (usually c:\cygwin\home\username), fire up the 
| cygwin terminal and you can now compile them as usual taking care to use 
| the --enable-shared flag to octave's configure script.
| 
| Wait a few hours .... and voilla!

And all of this could be much easier for most users if we built binary
packages for Cygwin and arranged for them to become part of the core
Cygwin binary package archive.

I can help get some of these things started (I have some scripts for
building Cygwin packages of Octave to get you going), but I can't be
the one to build and upload packages on a regular basis because I
simply do not have the time to do it.

As I have said a number of times on this list, it won't happen
unless someone (or some group) volunteers to do the work.  The people
who want Octave to improve on Windows systems will have to get
involved.  

jwe



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