Re: msys from octave

[nitnit]

--- On Mon, 2011/12/26, Matt Flax  wrote:

> Dear Tatsuro and Benjamin,
> 
> First of all, happy new year and festive season.
> 
> I have a question regarding running mingw msys, gcc and so on using the
> octave win32 installer.
> 
> I am trying to work out how to get a proper msys compiler (c++) running
> here (on a virtual windows installation).
> 
> I have downloaded the installers from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave_Windows%20-%20MinGW/Octave%203.4.3%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%20Installer/
> 
> When I follow the readme, and extract everything into the correct place, I
> find that I can't start msys correctly with a home directory ..
> 
> I have tried to run the pi.sh and pi.bat but they tell me that they can't
> create the /home directory - when I try to create it myself, they still
> report the same problem.
> 
> Can you please point me to a guide on how to get a proper home directory
> with gcc/g++ operating under the octave installer ?
> Any information would be very helpful and I would be greatful for :)
> 
> thanks
> Matt
> 

Hello Matt

Open a cmd window (ms windows shell) and cd to <your octave install
dir>\msys
Run msys.bat and you will get an msys shell
>From you msys shell prompt, try to run postinstall/pi.sh (or in two steps:
a. cd postinstall, b. pi.sh)

(I have not verified that the full pi script runs. I have only verified that
it starts running)

Nitzan


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