Re: Cygwin and dynamic linking

[Arvid Rosén]

On Sö, 2005-03-13, 23:38, Arvid Rosén skrev:
> Hi!
> I recently downloaded octave-2.1.67 and tried to compile it in cygwin.
> It works just fine! However, I now know that I need to use dynamic
> linking, so I tried to compile it again using both dynamic linking and
> shared libraries. That thid not work. Some files (not named explicitly
> in the error texts) were not found in the src directory.
>
> Should dynamic linking work under Cygwin?
> Has anyone actually used it with the newest octave sources?
>
> Thanks!
> Arvid
>

Solved!

I found the problem. In the script mk-oct-links, some text is piped
through sort. Unfortunately, "sort" resolved to
/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/sort on my machine, and not to /bin/sort. When
this was fixed, everything compiled smoothly.

/Arvid



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