Re: mkoctfile under Windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Dear Christof Zeile

I seemed that you are successful to use mkoctfile on MSVC.

However the similar question was already made by José Luis García 
Pallero Aug 13, 2007;
06:19pm.
See the below

http://www.nabble.com/oct-files-for-GNU-Octave-on-windows-tf4260312.html#a12132414

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> Summary:
> * Something goes wrong with the double quotes in mkoctfile.m.
> * I need to call vcvarsall.bat to set the MSVC paths.
> * Somehow I have to set the include and library paths for the SDK
>    manually.

The last line in summary, there is an altanative way

call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\SetEnv.Cmd"

It is easier way, to set eniviroment variable for 'Microsoft Platform SDK'

Sincerely
Tatsuro Matsuoka

--- Christof Zeile <address@hidden> wrote:

> David Bateman wrote:
> > Christof Zeile wrote:
> >> Has anybody so far succeeded in using mkoctfile with
> >> Version 2.9.13 of Octave, Windows version, no cygwin?
> [...]
> 
> > Have you installed an MSVC compiler.. The README that comes with the
> [...]
> 
> Yes, thanks, I have one. I even deinstalled my OpenWatcom Compiler
> before installing MSVC (by the way - is there a chance to get
> OpenWatcom support for mkoctfile?).
> 
> Thanks for the other comments as well. The problem is: The README
> tells me to install MSVC. But I also need the Platform SDK!
> Perhaps that should be made clear in the README.
> 
> But this is still not enough ...
> 
> The problem is that Windows does not like the additional double
> quotes introduced in the following line of mkoctfile.m:
>      cmd = strcat (cmd, " \"", varargin{i}, "\"");
> I changed that to
>      cmd = strcat (cmd, " ", varargin{i});
> (my new m-File is called mkoctfilenew.m)
> 
> So that's what I did finally:
> 
> - Open command window
>    cd "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\"
>    vcvarsall
>    set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Platform SDK for 
> Windows Server 2003 R2\Include;
>    set LIB=%LIB%%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 
> 2003 R2\Lib;
>    %ProgramFiles%\Octave\bin\octave
>    mkoctfilenew("helloworld.cc")
> 
> Works!
> 
> Summary:
> * Something goes wrong with the double quotes in mkoctfile.m.
> * I need to call vcvarsall.bat to set the MSVC paths.
> * Somehow I have to set the include and library paths for the SDK
>    manually.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Again, thanks for your help so far!
> 
> Christof
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