Re: How to re-install an uninstalled package?

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: How to re-install an uninstalled package?
> 
> sabuncu wrote
>> 
>>  Philip Nienhuis wrote
>>>  Probably the easiest way is to simply re-install
>>>  Octave-3.6.4-vs2010-setup.exe right over the existing installation.
>>  That may be the best solution, because it seems support for the Windows
>>  ecosystem is not yet there.  I was hoping to learn if there was in fact a
>>  solution.
> 
> Well reinstalling Octave isn't such a big deal. 2 minutes, that's all.
> 
> The issue is that for the MSVC Windows builds you need to install VisualC++
> Express separately (~2.2 GB of mostly M$ junk) and set it up yourself so
> that Octave can find it. Not hard really, details are in the README or on
> the Octave-Forge site where you downloaded the Octave binary. If you dare,
> you could give it a try; then you can also update other OF packages.
> 
> The MinGW Windows builds all have a complete build chain included, so
> reinstalling a package there is much easier.
> 
> (Why no VC++ in the MSVC builds? licensing issues. VC++ is proprietary
> stuff, MinGW isn't. In addition it is really hard to single out just those
> VC++ components needed to build OF packages out of that 2.2 GB heap of crap.
> I once gave it a try but had to give up very soon.
> All of which doesn't imply that I find the VC++ compilers sensu stricto so
> bad, au contraire. Pity that is isn't free SW)
> 
> Philip
> 
> 

Just curious (since I don't run Windows) - wouldn't using LLVM for Windows be 
easier ?

There is 'bash' for Windows, as well as GNU make, so on the surface the 
standard configure -> make -> make check -> make install should work, and no 
licensing issues.

Regards,
  Sergei.