Re: Compiling Octave on Win 7, well compiling La Pack first.

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello
The below is helpful for you?
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/

Regards

Tatsuro
--- On Fri, 2011/6/24, Carel van Dam  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to mail this to the general queries on old Nabble and I got 
> redirected to this list. If I've posted into the wrong spot let me know and 
> I'll fix it ASAP, assuming you're redirections are not too cryptic. 
> 
> I'm having a few problems compiling Octave, well I started there and now I' 
> having trouble compiling LaPack. I'm using win 7 and I've loaded all of the 
> minGW stuff and cygwin and I've tried most things I've seen on the web for 
> the last month or so. The most successful route I've followed to date is 
> given at the following website :
> 
> http://www.codingday.com/compile-lapack-and-blas-as-dll-on-windows/
> 
> Which got me a BLAS.dll file but wouldn't go to a LaPack.dll
> 
> Which is the most basic compile I've seen that also didn't work for me. I've 
> tried some more advanced stuff too to no avail e.g. BLAS/lapack, ATLAS, 
> gotoBLAS still have to try CLaPack. Basically I'm hoping there is some one 
> who has a nifty link for me (I think my googling skills have gone wonky) or 
> one or two pointers if that's possible.
> 
> I've acquired the latest Lapack 3.3.1 ATLAS 3.8.4 and the octave source. I 
> can't seem to get gotoBLAS. I've also got minGW and cygwin cmake, which 
> requires a proprietary compiler from intel so that's no good. From what I 
> understand LaPack doesn't like windows. 
> 
> If it's any help I'm clued up on coding in MATLAB, I'm a little lost in the 
> Linux world at present I've only managed a half decent Gentoo compile. I'll 
> make a nice write up for other people trying to compile that I'll post on the 
> wiki if I work out how.
> 
> Originally my hope was to contribute to the control packages for octave, but 
> I've been side tracked by trying to compile the latest octave source for a 
> bit now due to the latest win distro not supporting the latest control pack 
> in octave.
>