Re: Getting started with Octave and Visual C++

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:18 PM, n3t<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
> this is my first message in this forum! I've a simple question for you: I
> know you can say "read the fucking manual", but the problem is that I've not
> found a fucking manual about this!
>
> I want to create a C++ project using Visual Studio 2008 as IDE and Octave
> like scientifical/mathematical library.
>
> So I downloaded "Octave 3.2.0 for Windows MinGW Installer" from SourceForge
> and setted the include directory. If I create a project with only
> #include <octave/oct.h> and an empty main function,
> it shows to me an huge number of incredible errors! So I think I've
> downloaded a wrong file or I made a mistake about setting Visual Studio..
>
> How can explain to me what I've to do in order to achieve a good result?

You can't use the octave version you downloaded with Visual Studio.
C++ ABI are not compatible. You must use MinGW.

Michael.