RE: MSVC solution, Makefile or build tips available?

[Trudgett, David]

Hi Michael,

> There 2 ways to compile octave with MSVC, but in both cases you are
> on your own (although octave is compilable with MSVC, there's no
> user support for it):
>
> 1) you create your own solution files: one possible way is to
> configure octave with MinGW, inspect the Makefile's and create
> solution file from them
>
> 2) you use compiler wrappers that make MSVC behaves like GCC; I know
> at least 2 of them, namely cccl (older) and wgcc (more recent I
> think); using such wrapper should allow you to use the regular
> configure-based build system of octave within MSYS shell.

Thank you for your pointers. I will look at both methods and see how
far I can get with them.

Much appreciated.

David



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