Re: Problems with QtOctave

[David Grundberg]

Michael Goffioul skrev:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM, David Grundberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Yes, I know.  I've compiled Octave on mingw myself.  I was referring to
>> OctaveDE, where I wasn't as lucky.  But apparently I was wrong.
>> OctaveDE can be built on mingw.  I just didn't try hard enough, or
>> something.
> 
> The fact that I can compile it under MSVC doesn't necessarily mean
> that you'll be able to compile it out of the box on MinGW. To make it
> work, I actually had to hack libvte (a lot) and readline (a little):
> - implement a pipe-based communication instead of pty
> - implement a native Win32 renderer for libvte (for performance
> reasons, the default pango+cairo rendere being way too slow)
> - implement custom terminal resize support in readline
> 
> Part of these have never been published.

I think your previous mail was rather misleading then.

Grundberg