RE: mkoctfile HelloWorld.cc in Windows

[Suzan Bader]

Michael,

Thanks again for your help. I got it working using:
- A clean XP box with MSVC express version 8, and platform SDK installed.  
- Ran SetEnv.bat from SDk folder to set the environment variable
- Ran VCVars32.bat from MSVC 8\bin folder to set up environment variable for 
MSVC

Thanks
Suzan

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Goffioul [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 28 September 2007 18:14
To: szb
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: mkoctfile HelloWorld.cc in Windows

On 9/28/07, szb <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie in this area, so sorry if I seems to be away of the track...
> and sorry if this question has already been addressed in any other thread...
>
> I am running on Windows XP and have the "Microsoft Visual Studio 8"
> commercial version with SDk and all that.
>
> I have installed octave-2.9.13-setup.exe in the "c:\Programs\..." 
> folder (a folder without white space), and have tried to compile and 
> run the example octfile "HelloWorld.cc"
>
>   #include <octave/oct.h>
>
>     DEFUN_DLD (helloworld, args, nargout,
>       "Hello World Help String")
>     {
>       int nargin = args.length ();
>       octave_stdout << "Hello World has " << nargin
>             << " input arguments and "
>             << nargout << " output arguments.\n";
>       return octave_value_list ();
>     }
>
>
>  Running the following command from the DOS prompt:
>
>  mkoctfile helloworld.cc
>
>  I get lots of compile error (please see below). I wonder if anybody 
> can help me and tell me what I am doing wrong!!?

I tried your example on my installation and it worked OK, so it's probably a 
configuration problem. You should check whether the complete MSVC environment 
is available in your DOS prompt: PATH, INCLUDE, LIBS...
Do you have another MSVC version installed?

Michael.