Re: mkoctfile in Octave for Windows cannot find liboctave and other Octave-standard libraries

[E. Joshua Rigler]

Tatsuro,

As per your request:

$ mkoctfile.exe -p PCTLIBDIR
/c/OctaveB/octave-3.4.3/lib/octave/3.4.3

So, no this does not match my install folder structure. My install
folder is /f/Octave4Windows, where 'f' is an external hard drive.

FWIW, I was eventually able to compile my mex functions by explicitly
passing the library path via -L options to mkoctfile.exe. This seems
less than ideal though. Is there a way to force mkoctfile.exe to
respect my installation directory structure?

-EJR


On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Please execute
>
> $ mkoctfile -p OCTLIBDIR
>
> Does the result match to your install folder structure?
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>
>
> --- On Fri, 2012/2/24, E. Joshua Rigler <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to compile mex files using the command-line mkoctfile
>> from the MINGW32 version of Octave for Windows. I get the following
>> errors:
>>
>> $ mkoctfile.exe -mex fits_read_image.c
>> -L/f/Octave4Windows/Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/lib -lcfitsio
>> -I/f/Octave4Windows/Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/include/octave-3.4.3/octave
>> -I/f/Octave4Windows/Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/include
>> f:/octave4windows/octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>> cannot find -loctinterp
>> f:/octave4windows/octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>> cannot find -loctave
>> f:/octave4windows/octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>> cannot find -lcruft
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> Note 1: I am doing this after calling msys.bat, and mounting the
>> mingw32 directory as /mingw
>> Note 2: manually specifying the path for the libcfitsio.a library
>> seems to make ld.exe happy. It is what I would consider the Octave
>> standard libraries (i.e., liboctinterp, liboctave, libcruft) that
>> ld.exe cannot find when called from mkoctfile. What's worse, this
>> mkoctfile.exe file is some kind of binary file, not a script like I am
>> accustomed to, so I can't even read it to see what is happening.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated, or just confirmation that it is
>> currently impossible to compile mex files in Octave for Windows so I
>> can stop wasting my time.
>>
>> -EJR
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