Re: Building Octave for Windows with MinGW

[LUK ShunTim]

David Bateman wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>> Are there instructions for building Octave for Windows with MinGW
>> somewhere on the net?  Can it be done using Cygwin tools and passing
>> -mno-cygwin to the compilers or do you need to have the MinGW tools
>> installed instead?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> jwe
> 
> 
> Here are the build script and patches I have at about th time of 2.9.4.
> Note that atlas build is broken and so should be disabled. I don't use
> the cygwin tools at all but rather msys, intended to distribute msys and
> the mingw compilers as part of the package...

Just a quick question, and sorry for not using the source :-)

Does this imply that the mingw build will now use the Windows native
gnuplot instead of the one in cygwin, and hence users can get rid of the
whole xserver stuff if they simply want to use octave (with plotting)?

Regards,
ST
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