Re: DLD's on windows

[Paul Kienzle]

Shai Ayal wrote:

> Can anyone update me on the current status of using DLD functions (aka 
> oct files) on windows systems ?
>
> This question pops up once in a while in the mailing lists. I decided 
> to ask again because the INSTALL.WINDOWS file in octave-forge mentions 
> that octave 2.1.49 does support DLD functions in windows but says 
> nothing more.
>
> Specifically:
>
> can octave be built with --enable-shared on windows ?
> can mkoctfile be used for making oct files on windows ?
Yes you can build with --enable-shared on windows.  With
my patches (which I believe are now in CVS), this will even
work well on Windows 9x.  The octave-forge build at
http://octave.sf.net  for 2.1.50 is compiled with
--enable-shared.  It is not ATLAS enabled, and it is compiled
for arch i686, so it is not yet an ideal package, but we are
getting there.  I should also wrap up a development tarball
containing the headers, the link libraries and mkoctfile so
that you can build your own oct-files, but I have not yet
done so.




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