Re: mkoctfile - Communications Package

[Michael Goffioul]

On 8/24/07, Vanessa del Valle Magalhães <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have installed the octave 2.9.13 im a Windows XP platform and I'm trying
> to install the communications package, but till now I just got errors! Can
> somebody help me? I have no idea what I could do!
>
> Octave-2.9-13.exe:5> pkg install communications-1.0.2.tar.gz
> 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> Operable program or batch file.
> 'link' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> Operable program or batch file.
> Configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile
> Error: the configure script returned the following error: checking for gcc…
> gcc
> Checking for C compiler default output file name… a.exe
> Checking whether the C compiler works… yes
> Checking whether we are cross compiling… no
> Checking for suffix of executables… .exe
> Checking for suffix of objects files… o
> Checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
> Checking whether gcc accepts –g… yes
> Checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C… none needed
> Checking for mkoctfile…mkoctfile
> Error: called from 'pkg:configure_make' in file C:\Program
> Files\Octave\share\octave

You need the Microsoft compiler in order to recompile a package. Why do
you need to recompile the communications package? It's included in the
installer you used to install octave. It's also installed by default, so you
probably already have it installed...

Michael.