Re: Problem with Symbolic package in octave-forge 2004.07.07

[Shai Ayal]

You probably did this already, but just to make sure, this is the order 
of building these things:

first do whatever upgrade to cygwin you want or need using the cygwin 
setup program

now do a clean compile/install of octave

now do a clean compile/install of octave-forge

I think you error messages might stem from compiling different bits of 
your setup with different compiler/library versions. Using the above 
order of building should eliminate this uncertainty at least.

        Shai

grumpy steve wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’m a real novice, so please be very patient with me if I say something 
> stupid.  You are, however, permitted to laugh if I say something 
> inadvertently funny – all I would ask is that you let me in on the joke!
>
> I’ve been trying to get octave 2.1.57 + octave-forge 2004.07.07 working 
> on my WinXP PC using a very recent download of Cygwin.  Most things work 
> well, and I am altogether hugely impressed.  However, sadly, one of the 
> packages in which I’m most interested, the symbolic package from 
> octave-forge, is proving more stubborn, almost certainly because I don’t 
> know how to build it properly.  I have downloaded, built and installed 
> cln-1.1.8, GiNaC-1.2.1, and octave-forge, and I did end up with a 
> “symbols.oct” file on the appropriate path, along with a large number of 
> “.oct” files symbolically linked to it.  However, whenever I try to 
> execute any of the functions in the symbols.oct, I get the message 
> “error: dlopen: Win32 error 998”.  I have a strong suspicion that 
> something hasn’t linked correctly, meaning that symbols.oct is broken, 
> and quite possibly, incomplete, but such is my ignorance I don’t have 
> the slightest idea how to fix it.  I could try rebuilding everything 
> starting off with different options to the configure step, or, heaven 
> forbid, start messing about with makefiles, but given the time it takes 
> to build everything, it might be a very long time before I get anywhere.
>
> All suggestions welcome, and all ridicule tolerated.
>
> Steve

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