Re: testing octave-3.4.0-3 on cygwin snapshots

[Marco atzeri]

On 6/23/2011 4:35 PM, Nit Nit wrote:
> Hello Octave help
>
> I have recently installed Cygwin Octave and could use it succesfully by:
>
> 1. Installing cygwin from scratch with the following packages:
>
> octave
> octave-devel
> octave-doc
> octave-forge
> gnuplot
> xinit
>
> 2. Replacing cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20110606.dll
>
> At that stage I could use octave including graphics and octaveforge packages
>
> I have tried to use mkoctfile in order to compile octave helloworld.cc
> as listed in
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Getting-Started-with-Oct_002dFiles.html
> and found out that some cygwin packages are still missing !

Hi Nit,
never expected my packages are perfect ;-)

which packages are missing ? Could you provide the log ?

octave-devel is pulling libncurses-devel liblapack-devel libhdf5-devel
eventually I should add also libfftw3-devel.

> Does anyone can provide information about minimal cygwin packages
> required for octave mkoctfile ?
>
> Regrads
> nitnit

Marco