Re: Octave on Windiws mobile

[David Bateman]

Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Derik Cloete wrote:
>
>    > I am a second year engineering student and we are learning to use 
>    > Octave at the moment. I also own a HTC (Hermes 200) Windows mobile 
>    > enabled Pocket PC and I was wondering if there is any sort of support 
>    > for Windows Mobile devices to run Octave. This would Really help me 
>
> and David Bateman responded:
>
>    I don't think anyone has even tried to compile Octave for Windows 
>    mobile. Might be an interesting experiment, but ultimately a bit futile 
>    given the memory limitations of such a platform
>
> I think the Samsung ARM CPU that this thing has lacks floating point
> hardware, so all calculations would be in software-emulated FP -> slow.
> Still, getting a running Octave on Derik's phone would give him a major
> bragging ticket.
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I had a colleague get Octave sort of running on an ARM based PXA270 
running Linux, but the FP was indeed an issue. Package for the build is 
at http://www.mkezx.org, though this doesn't help with Windows mobile...

D.




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