Re: Update to Octave 4.0 for Windows

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Aug 7, 2015 12:43 AM, "Tatsuro MATSUOKA" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> >All I know is when I first started looking about setting things up here to maybe work on a few bugs/patches, etc. I went through an endless recursive loop of link hopping to try to find a set of instructions on what was needed to do so. (only thing obvious was the need for Mercurial to manage the source, but testing many things would be impossible (?) without ability to compile, no?) Eventually I found one page (manual? wiki? I forget) that said in a very roundabout way: "you need Linux". If you get a process together, would be great for that to be captured as a step-by-step on the wiki, whether you manage it all with Windows or do a cross-compile.
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> >Nick J
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> Build instruction of windows binary using mxe-octave is shown,
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> http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer
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> I have build several times windows binary on Linux(Ubuntu 14.04 amd64) using mxe-octave
> according to the instructions the above.  
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> For Windows native build, I have tried using Msys2 
> (64 bit (32bit Msys2 does no work well on my PC)) 
> and MinGW w64 32 bit compiler (gcc-4.9.2).
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> Unlike on Msys2 32bit, on Msys2 64 bit host and 
> build detection does not work properly, 
> I executed some dirty hacks in the src/**.mk files.
> I have succeeded to build octave core but have not succeeded 
> to build some dependencies for octave-forge package.
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> My trails were done from end of June to beginning of July.
> But I have had no chance to continue this because of lack of time. 
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> I have not completed the build process so that 
> I cannot revise MinGW build (Windows native build) section on the Wiki.
> (The Wiki is instruction using msys + MinGW is outdated 
> but new instruction cannot be described at this moment.)
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> Tatsuro

Understood and appreciate the time and effort. I'm starting from scratch but might set that as a new project in a month or so.